The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

Tsing traces the rhythms of disturbance-based ecologies through the biological and economic lives of matsutake mushrooms. Attending to the fortuitous multispecies assemblages of lifeforms and lifeways that arise within the ruins of capitalist expansion, Tsing reimagines the possibilities for coexisting on a damaged planet.