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The mushroom at the end of the world : on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins  Cover Image Book Book

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

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  • ISBN: 9780691162751 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780691178325 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xii, 331 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-322) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: autumn aroma -- What's left? -- Arts of noticing -- Contamination as collaboration -- Some problems with scale -- Interlude: smelling -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Notes -- Index.
Subject: Human ecology.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Environmental degradation.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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