The Fungi — trivial, easily ignored, yet resilient, interconnected, and omnipresent.

How do mushrooms flourish and multiply? They take so little to survive. They exist in the periphery of the rational creature’s naked eye, in the dampest and darkest corners, in the forest far away from beaten tracks, under the park bench where you walk across everyday, hidden behind the old furniture in your grandparent’s old summer house, in the natural world and the Anthropocene.

Living in a time of planetary anxiety, loneliness, depression, isolation, what can we learn from the fungal wisdom to build a better future, live a life outside of the framework of capitalism?

The fungal, as the inter-product of underground mycelium and the forest vegetation, thrives through their interconnected and intersubjective network. Just like fungals growing in a human-disturbed forest, we, the commons of this world, find ourselves in an era ridden by the hegemonic narrative of capitalism and legacies of the colonial order.

The current capitalistic machines extracts either by appropriation or exploitation. The enchantment of private ownership and the myth of shareholder value emerge from these two processes. Hence, the concentration of wealth occurs as capital claims value generated from unplanned resources. The financialization of the public and private sphere have alienate us. Just like the fungi, us — the global commons, the global majority — only thrives through interconnectedness and intersubjectivity. The intersubjective force of vitality is unquantifiable, incalculable and can only be realised through mutually seeing, sensing, and living together.

The monetary discourse have distanced us. The myth that everything can be measured in quantifiable metrics have alienated us. Like the fungal rooted off of their own ecosystem, being shipped off as tradable consumer products in foreign markets, Through isolating us, the shaping force of current hegemony, the State, the central banks, the IMF, the FED, the economy, the market, have reduced us to exploitable assets. Once all value has been extracted from us, we are discarded, left leaving behind desolate spaces to rot.

So, what can we learn from the fungal wisdom to build a better future, live a life outside of the framework of capitalism?

Let us rethink Deleuze and Guattari’s “rhizome”. All things in the world — are rhizomes, or rhizomatically interconnected. All things in the world share a myco-intersubjectivity. Capitalism has appropriated such myco-intersubjectivity an made these connections invisible.

The myco-intermovement seeks to restore value creation through shared symbiosis, advocating for sharing over ownership, inclusion over concealment, and growth over alienation. Together, they foster the potential for commons, collectively crafting a vibrant public life among diverse species.This myco-intersubjectivity initiative to rebuild the interconnected networks of commons and reconsiders the intertwined relationships among workers, families, communities, ecosystems, and all entities, both living and non-living.