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

from dbsovereign

This is the story of how a humble mushroom has transformed commerce and become an almost priceless commodity. It is also an exploration of how value can be so relative – how “stinky” to some can remind others of the smell of autumn. Through a unique combination of supply and demand, the Matsutake...

from pdever

I bought this book because of my enduring fascination with mushrooms: I eat them, I cook them, I hunt for them, and I think and read about them. I'm also repeatedly rewarded by their weirdness, so the title, subtitle, and cover art for this beautiful book had me hooked from the start. The Mushroo...

from quondame

Intriguing and baffling, informative about the matsutake mushroom, it place in not so natural nature and human culture, and deeply revolutionary, this is a book that doesn't aim to satisfy but to politely incite. And she ends with my favorite anti-capitalist, Ursula K. LeGuin

from TeaTimeCoder

Absolute garbage that I spent hours digging through only to realise it's a pile of barren graphomanic twaddle even a mushroom would fail to metabolise. Full of multi-temporal assemblages of narrative marxist precarity and similar word salad. The only interesting thing is the level of ignorance of...

from

I'm stunned. I started reading this book in the summer of 2020, pored over it slowly, as it is complex and the language delicious, finished a couple months short of a year later. I have been enlightened and changed. The tenacity of the wild mushroom market challenges capitalist models dictating s...