The Mushroom at the End of the World. Anna Tsing

‘It is said that the first living thing to make its way through the ravaged landscape after the atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima in 1945 was the matsutake mushroom,’ recounts the story of the traders Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, an anthropologist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In this book, Tsing follows the tracks of a rare, precious mushroom and reconsiders anthropological practice as a collaborative action. In collaborations with colleagues, specialists from different fields, and inoformants who tell their own stories, Tsing explores the chains of interaction between humans and nonhumans, finding possible forms of life in the uncertain here-and-now. She succeeds in describing a world beyond the divide between Human and Nature, with attention to the diversity of economies, different time rhythms and variable future scenarios on the ruins of capitalism, in search of survival practices in a disintegrating world.

The book continues a new series of ist_publishing that presents interdisciplinary research on war and culture — warning books.

Team

Publisher: ist publishing  

Author: Anna Tsing

Author of the foreword to the Ukrainian edition, compiler of the series of warning books: Borys Filonenko 

Translation: Yaroslava Strikha 

Project management: Nastia Leonova, Kateryna Nosko

Managing editor: Borys Filonenko 

Literary Editor: Oleksandra Sauliak

Proofreader: Iryna Kurhanska

Design: Volodymyr Havrysh

Copyright manager: Maria Sharova, Victoria Berkut

Legal support: Maria Farbota 

Communications: Polina Sopolieva

Printing: KOLO private enterprise, Drohobych