Tsing notes that it is common to speak of our age as the “Anthropocene,” a time driven by human interactions with the world. “We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination,” Tsing argues (19). Tsing argues that while many commentators consider how to continue economic precarity without wreaking further ecological devastation, climate change implies that everything is in jeopardy. Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet. In Oregon, the answer turns out to be matsutake mushrooms for export to Japanese consumers. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. She argues that this story should not be considered the end, however, and poses a question: “What emerges in damaged landscapes, beyond the call of industrial promise and ruin?” (18). This story of people reshaping landscapes to create economic booms is the “story we know” (18). Tsing begins with her own narrative of progress, the early 20th century lumber boom in Oregon. Le Guin, about her desire to look for human futures that will “put a pig on the tracks” rather than depict stolid utopias (17). The chapter epigraph is a quotation from science fiction author Ursula K. The Mushroom at the End of the World Prologue Summary & Analysis Prologue Summary and Analysis: Autumn Aroma Just before the prologue, Tsing presents the first image of a mushroom, in the ruin of an industrial forest in the American state of Oregon (1).
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