Main entry:

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, author.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

First paperback printing.

Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2017.
©2015

Description:

xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

0691178321
9780691178325 (paperback)

Subject:

Human ecology.
Economic development Environmental aspects.
Environmental degradation.
Écologie humaine.
Développement économique Aspect de l'environnement.
Environnement Dégradation.
human ecology.
Anthropozän
Humanökologie
Pilze
Umweltbelastung
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Economics.
Japan

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296510
Call No.: BIB 242878
Status: Available