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The Mushroom at the End of the World

On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

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The Mushroom at the End of the World

Von: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Gesprochen von: Susan Ericksen
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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. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made?

A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.

©2015 Princeton University Press (P)2017 Tantor Anthropologie Ökonomie

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This is an amazing reading experience. You not only meet really interesting and inventive people, organisms and communities but you learn a new way of seeing by following the authors perspective. I especially appreciate the undogmatic update of questions from the Marxist tradition under the changed conditions of todays damaged world and communities. Progress, alienation and solidarity are beautifully reframed in this context without leaving the insight of the Marxist traditions behind. Finally it is a core method of this tradition to find hope for the future in the devastation of the present, which is reinterpreted or translated in this book so enchantingly.

Hope foraged in ruins

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