Summary of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 's The Mushroom at the End of the World

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was on my first search for matsutake in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. I had found the Forest Service’s big camp for mushroom pickers, but all the pickers were out foraging. I decided to look for mushrooms myself while I waited for their return.
#2 In 1908 and 1909, two railroad entrepreneurs raced to build track along Oregon’s Deschutes River. The goal of each was to be the first to create an industrial connection between the towering ponderosas of the eastern Cascades and the stacked lumberyards of Portland.
#3 In 1989, a plastic owl was hung in effigy on an Oregon logging truck. Environmentalists had shown that unsustainable logging was destroying Pacific Northwest forests. By 1989, many mills had already closed, and loggers were moving to other regions.
#4 The Pacific Northwest is an example of how the call of industrial promise and ruin can affect landscapes. While some saw the arrival of thousands of people as a threat to the environment, others saw it as a threat to the mushroom trade.

Sujets

• Industrie
• Agribusiness

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 06 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669380917
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was on my first search for matsutake in Oregon’s Cascade Mountains. I had found the Forest Service’s big camp for mushroom pickers, but all the pickers were out foraging. I decided to look for mushrooms myself while I waited for their return.

#2

In 1908 and 1909, two railroad entrepreneurs raced to build track along Oregon’s Deschutes River. The goal of each was to be the first to create an industrial connection between the towering ponderosas of the eastern Cascades and the stacked lumberyards of Portland.

#3

In 1989, a plastic owl was hung in effigy on an Oregon logging truck. Environmentalists had shown that unsustainable logging was destroying Pacific Northwest forests. By 1989, many mills had already closed, and loggers were moving to other regions.

#4

The Pacific Northwest is an example of how the call of industrial promise and ruin can affect landscapes. While some saw the arrival of thousands of people as a threat to the environment, others saw it as a threat to the mushroom trade.

#5

Our time is ripe for sensing precarity. Given the effectiveness of state and capitalist devastation of natural landscapes, we might ask why anything outside their plans is alive today. We must watch unruly edges.

#6

While we learn over and over that humans are different from the rest of the living world because we look forward, we often ignore the fact that many other kinds of time exist outside of this framework.

#7

The concept of assemblage is helpful when thinking about how different species affect each other. Assemblages do not just gather lifeways; they make them. They allow us to ask questions such as how species interactions affect communal effects.

#8

The term assemblage is often used to describe the interactions between different lifeways that gather. It is a method that might revitalize political economy as well as environmental studies.

#9

The last examples suggest that abandoning progress rhythms to watch polyphonic assemblages is not a matter of virtuous desire. Instead, it is a matter of recognizing that progress has stopped making sense. More and more of us have realized that the emperor has no clothes.

#10

Contamination is when we are changed by our encounters, and it is this change that makes the sum greater than its parts. We are all contaminated by our encounters, and this is what allows us to survive together.

#11

The problem of precarious survival helps us see what is wrong. Precarity is a state of acknowledgment of our vulnerability to others. We need help, and help is always the service of another, with or without intent.

#12

The pickers in Oregon’s forests are a good example of how people find value in the ruined industrial landscape. The abundance of matsutake is a recent historical creation: the forests have been ruined by fire suppression and logging, but these practices have allowed the growth of lodgepoles, which produce matsutake fruit well under mature trees.

#13

The Mien are not known for their respect for national boundaries. They have repeatedly crossed back and forth, especially when armies threaten. They are not an autonomous tribe, but they are not under the control of the state.

#14

Contaminated diversity is everywhere, and it is often ugly. It is complicated and humbling. It implicates survivors in histories of greed, violence, and environmental destruction.

#15

Contaminated diversity is not only particular and historical, but also relational. It has no self-contained units, and its units are encounter-based collaborations. Without self-contained units, it is impossible to compute costs and benefits, or functionality.

#16

To learn anything, we must revitalize arts of noticing and include ethnography and natural history. However, we have a problem with scale. A rush of stories cannot be neatly summed up. Its scales do not nest neatly, and they draw attention to interrupting geographies and tempos.

#17

A theory of nonscalability might begin with the work it takes to create scalability, and the messes it makes. The sharp contrast between this model and the matsutake forests that form the subject of this book is a useful platform from which to build a critical distance from scalability.

#18

The project frame is what allows for the interchangeability of human and plant labor, as well as plant commodities. This was a success for the European sugarcane industry, which made great profits. It shaped the dreams of progress and modernity.

#19

The U. S. Pacific Northwest was the crucible of U. timber policy and practice in the twentieth century. It was there that the timber industry turned forests into plantations, and monocrop even-aged timber stands were introduced. But the region’s Forest Service districts lost funding, and maintaining plantation-like forests became cost-prohibitive.