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

for twentieth-century scientists, progress also unselfconsciously framed the study of landscapes.

About ecology: For humanists, assumptions of progressive human mastery have encouraged a view of nature as a romantic space of antimodernity.4

About commerce: Contemporary commerce works within the constraints and possibilities of capitalism.

long as authoritative analysis requires assumptions of growth, experts don’t see the heterogeneity of space and time, even where it is obvious to ordinary participants and observers.

This book is not a critique of the dreams of

modernization and progress that offered a vision of stability in the twentieth century

Here I glimpsed how scholarship could cross between natural science and cultural studies not just through critique but also through world-building knowledge.

our group convened to explore a new anthropology of always-in-process collaboration.

In much of the history of anthropology, ethnography has been a solo performance;

The economy is no longer a source of growth or optimism; any of our jobs could disappear with the next economic crisis