The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.
Material type: TextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015Copyright date: c2015Description: 1 online resource (xii, 331 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781400873548 (electronic bk.)
- 1400873541 (electronic bk.)
- 330.1 23
- GF21 .T76 2015
- 42.90
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Autumn aroma. -- Part I. What's left?: Arts of noticing -- Contamination as collaboration -- Some problems with scale -- Interlude : smelling. -- Part II. After progress : salvage accumulation: Working the edge -- Freedom ... -- Open ticket, Oregon -- War stories -- What happened to the state? : two kinds of Asian Americans -- ... in translation -- Between the dollar and the yen -- From gifts to commodities- and back -- Salvage rhythms : business in disturbance -- Interlude : tracking. -- Part III: Disturbed beginnings : unintentional design: The life of the forest -- Coming up among pines ... -- History -- Resurgence -- Serendipity -- Ruin -- ... in gaps and patches -- Science as translation -- Flying spores -- Interlude : dancing. -- 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.
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