interconnections journal of posthumanism

We Dream You Up

interconnections journal of posthumanism December 9, 2024 Keith Williams, Michelle Braunstein

This interdisciplinary research paper recombines Indigenous knowledges, postcolonial and new materialist theory, as well as fictional vignettes and drawings, to critically examine the biological synthesis of psilocybin through yeast. Against the backdrop of the “psychedelic renaissance” and consensus in the synthetic biology industry that generally, edited genes are “beyond containment”, the...