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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins is a 2015 book by the Chinese American anthropologist Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. The book describes and analyzes the globalized commodity chains of matsutake mushrooms.
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In the shape of a finch's beak we can see all of evolution. So through close, indeed loving, attention to a certain fascinating mushroom, the matsutake, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing discusses how the whole immense crisis of ecology came about and why it continues.
Sep 29, 2015 · Taking as her subject the Matsutake mushroom—prized as a gift in Japan and scavenged in ruined post-industrial forests around the world—Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing has created a grand synthesis that interrogates and integrates everything from current anthropological methodology to the foundations of Darwinism to the history of post-industrial ...
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Sep 29, 2015 · Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world--and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places.
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The Mushroom at the End of the World On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Princeton and Oxford
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Jul 20, 2019 · The mushroom at the end of the world, on the possibillity of life in capitalism ruins. By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
Nov 9, 2023 · Unlike Archimedes, it is not a fixed point to move the world that Anna Tsing (born 1952) needs but a single, strong-smelling, hard-to-find mushroom, the matsutake, which the Japanese prize highly.
