Between the land and the Globe. Tsing's vision

I learned about  Anna Tsing's book "The Mushroom at the End of the World" (http://seminarnyc.com/sites/default/files/temp/mushroom.pdf) from AIME's twitter (https://twitter.com/AIMEproject), a good source of reading suggestions. It is a great book for many reasons (or so I felt about it). But among the many other things I read there, the chapter "Interlude, Tracking" (pg 138) stuck to me as a powerful image. Indeed an image that offers a certain answer to Latour's question: "If we cannot land neither on the Globe nor on the old territory, where are we going to land to?"

I found there the image of a forest which stands on the mycorrhizal network. The presentation in the book is much better than what I could do here. It is a variety of a neuron-like structure, without the calculation concern that usually accompanies talks about neurons.

For me it was an image of the interplay between differentiation and commoness. The different trees (either due to the different history of each tree or due to the different species of plants) and then in the ground the mycorrhizal network, possibly suited to different species of plants and at the same time working on the common language of "calcium, nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, and other minerals".

I thought: there is this talk about the many sciences and Science (with capital S) , but what is it that differentiates sciences? It is a combination of their "subject matter" (which strongly reminds a bifurcatory approach) and their "practices" (which practically means the practices of Western science exported all over the Globe).

But what if the different species of trees were different existential traditions (religious, philosophical) and mycorrhiza were sciences adapted to different existential traditions and yet communicating among themselves?

In this view the many sciences do not milk indiscriminately different cultures in order to produce their universal (even if split in peaces of the same big puzzle or big ring -https://galison.scholar.harvard.edu/files/andrewhsmith/files/the_pyramid_and_the_ring.pdf-) truths that are then offered to the citizen of the world, but there are different sciences hybridized, domesticated, by the existential traditions (who are in their turn influenced by them) and creating an alternative way of communication and collaboration among different existential traditions.

Could this forest be the possible "landing target"?

Can we work on old patches where such kind of forests still coexist with the fungi mycorrhizal network (perhaps in the back alleys of this wolrd)? What if one has next to them grand patches of soils heavily supported with particular brands of fertilizers or dominated by one main speaces slightly varying  according to local circumstances (if we consider these to be the analogs of a universally expansive modernity)?