The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

  • Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
Date:
2017
  • Books

About this work

Description

"Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world - and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's account of this sought-after fungi offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? [This book] is an original examination of the relationship between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth."--Page [4] of cover.

Publication/Creation

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2017.

Physical description

xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contributors

Edition

First paperback printing.

Contents

Part I: What's left?: Arts of noticing -- Contamination as collaboration -- Some problems with scale. -- Part II: After progress : salvage accumulation: Working the edge -- Open ticket, Oregon -- War stories -- What happened to the state? Two kinds of Asian Americans -- Between the dollar and the yen -- From gifts to commodities -- and back -- Salvage rhythms : business in disturbance. -- Part III: Disturbed beginnings : unintentional design: The life of the forest -- History -- Resurgence -- Serendipity -- Ruin -- Science as transition -- Flying spores. -- Part IV: In the middle of things: Matsutake crusaders : waiting for fungal action -- Ordinary assets -- Anti-ending : some people I met along the way. -- Spore trail : the further adventures of a mushroom.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-322)and index (pages [323]-331).

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    FG /TSI
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 0691178321
  • 9780691178325