Ian M. Kinchin

Speculative ecologies: Imagining futures for higher education in a postdigital world through the lens of ‘lichen’

This paper develops the concept of speculative ecologies as a mode of reimagining the futures of higher education through the figure of the ‘lichen’. Drawing on posthumanist and ecological thought, it argues that lichens (composite, slow-growing, and symbiotic) offer a generative...