![]() from Yale University and completed her masters and Ph.D. ![]() She cites, as encouragement, a pamphlet reminding readers that even in the aftermath of the United States military dropping atomic bombs on Japan, matsutake mushrooms continued to exist. She is the author of In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (1993), Friction (2005) and The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015). She argues that extensive critique of capitalism and its failures has already been undertaken at length she is interested in what matsutake may reveal about possibilities for endurance and happiness in an unstable and uncertain world. Having introduced her abstract subject, Tsing next describes her concrete one: “aromatic wild mushrooms much valued in Japan” called matsutake (2). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 4.03 4,799 ratings626 reviews Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. (2015) The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. ![]() ![]() She argues that mushrooms act as a “guide-when the controlled world we thought we had fails” (2). The world is beset by climate change, and employment and economic success is now elusive for many people. Tsing explains that her relationship to nature is emotional, rooted in a response to precarity-visiting the woods, finding mushrooms there, shows her “that there are still pleasures amidst the terrors of indeterminacy” (1). ![]()
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