A review by pinkiereads
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

sooooo good. truly informed so much of my world view and was wonderful to read in conversation with alexis pauline gumbs’s Undrowned. there is so much to be learned from the natural world around us! i loved the themes of entanglement and contamination, i will be returning to those. also, i always love a deep dive of a book. the section on ethnic minorities of pickers and how that influences their picking and world making, the section on japanese timber trade history, the section on pine trees around the world, the attention to relationships between species in the matsutake universe, the sections on the differences between us and japanese and chinese matsutake science… ALL SO INTERESTING!!! def a hard book to read on account of just how much information is in it and how completely unfamiliar with the subject i was beforehand, but so worth it. only .25 points off for being a tricky one but also i’m not mad about it. i <3 socially informed and revolutionary science and i <3 mushrooms and soon i may learn to <3 living in the apocalypse