![]() They make each other’s world-making projects possible. …one could say that pines, matsutake, and humans all cultivate each other unintentionally. Tsing highlights both the resilience of the matsutake, which humans have found cannot be domesticated, and the entanglements between and co-dependency of different species-or multi-species "assemblages"-in not only surviving precarious and disturbed environments, but in creating new environments. ![]() In the book, Tsing follows foragers as they search for mushrooms, the traders who buy and sell them, and the Japanese consumers who especially prize them, largely as gifts. ![]() ![]() The matsutake is considered a delicacy and is a mushroom that thrives in human-disturbed forests, foraged by humans in locales as diverse as Oregon, Yunnan, and Lapland. The Mushroom at the End of the World uses the matsutake as a focal point for exploring what Tsing describes as the end of capitalist progress as ecological degradation and economic precarity proliferate in the twenty-first century. The book describes and analyzes the globalized commodity chains of matsutake mushrooms. ![]() 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. Capitalism, Commodity chain, Matsutake, Anthropocene ![]()
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