Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world – and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made?
A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction. By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Niels Bohr Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she codirects Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). She is the author of Friction and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (both Princeton).
人性是一种物种间的关系。在这篇文章中,哈拉维的“伴侣物种”(companion species)概念引领我们超越熟悉的伴侣,去向丰富的生态多样性。没有了生态多样性,人类无法存活。谷物驯化了人类。种植园给予我们称其为种族的亚种。家封锁了物种间和物种内部的爱。但是,蘑菇采集带我...
評分 評分一本从松茸发散到资本供应链,资本积累历史的书,以小见大,不仅讲述了松茸在菌类中的独特性,更从松茸与整个森林生态的关系,与寄居在森林中的采摘者的文化纠缠,进而到后期的购买者、使用者之间的联系,让松茸从单纯的美食视角中转身出来,获得了一个更为广阔的展示空间,只...
評分like first half. second half seems diverged
评分想寫一本The Dog at the end of the world.
评分Supply chain 和commodity chain的區分很有用,指齣後資本主義依賴salvage economy 作為主要的生産模式,從而外包lead firm對工人與環境維係的責任。很驚喜的是這本書在環境毀滅與生存睏境的描述中仍然保持著某種樂觀- will the art of noticing save us from what's to come?
评分like first half. second half seems diverged
评分(still dont know how i feel about it/how to think about it)
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