The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Enabling Entanglements -- Prologue. Autumn Aroma -- Part I. What's Left? -- 1. Arts of Noticing -- 2. Contamination as Collaboration -- 3. Some Problems with Scale -- Part II. After Progress: Salvage Accumulation -- 4. Working the Edge -- 5. Open Ticket, Oregon -- 6. War Stories -- 7. What Happened to the State? Two Kinds of Asian Americans -- 8. Between the Dollar and the Yen -- 9. From Gifts to Commodities-and Back -- 10. Salvage Rhythms: Business in Disturbance -- Part III. Disturbed Beginnings: Unintentional Design -- 11. The Life of the Forest -- 12. History -- 13. Resurgence -- 14. Serendipity -- 15. Ruin -- 16. Science as Translation -- 17. Flying Spores -- Part IV. In the Middle of Things -- 18. Matsutake Crusaders: Waiting for Fungal Action -- 19. Ordinary Assets -- 20. Anti-ending: Some People I Met along the Way -- Notes -- Index