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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. It’s in a niche genre that can be called the anthropology of nonhuman things. The book centers on the matsutake mushroom, which only grows in damaged, messed-up landscapes. The mushroom can’t be mass-produced or fully controlled. Through the mushroom, the book follows refugees, foragers, and the networks of selling mushrooms and different practices in Oregon, China, and Japan. It explains the connections between people, places, and economies. The book is about mushrooms, but it is also about how life, labor, and value are created in the ruins of capitalism. The book doesn’t promise a perfect future. It simply shows how life keeps happening in the ruins. #vezirereads

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