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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment. It’s not easy to know how to make a life, much less avert planetary destruction. Luckily there is still company, human and not human. We can still explore the overgrown verges of our blasted landscapes – the edges of capitalist discipline, scalability, and abandoned resource plantations. We can still catch the scent of the latent commons – and the elusive autumn aroma.”

1. “Without stories of progress, the world has become a terrifying place. The ruin glares at us with the horror of its abandonment. It’s not easy to know how to make a life, much less avert planetary destruction. Luckily there is still company, human and not human. We can still explore the overgrown verges of our blasted landscapes – the edges of capitalist discipline, scalability, and abandoned resource plantations. We can still catch the scent of the latent commons – and the elusive autumn aroma.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us – but it might open our imaginations.”

2. “We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological ruination. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save us – but it might open our imaginations.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds – and new directions – may emerge.”

3. “As contamination changes world-making projects, mutual worlds – and new directions – may emerge.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “Life lines are entangled: candy cane and matsutake; matsutake and its host trees; host trees and herbs, mosses, insects, soil bacteria, and forest animals; heaving bumps and mushroom pickers. Matsutake pickers are alert to life lines in the forest; searching with all the senses creates this alertness. It is a form of forest knowledge and appreciation without the completeness of classification. Instead, searching brings us to the liveliness of beings experienced as subjects rather than objects.”

4. “Life lines are entangled: candy cane and matsutake; matsutake and its host trees; host trees and herbs, mosses, insects, soil bacteria, and forest animals; heaving bumps and mushroom pickers. Matsutake pickers are alert to life lines in the forest; searching with all the senses creates this alertness. It is a form of forest knowledge and appreciation without the completeness of classification. Instead, searching brings us to the liveliness of beings experienced as subjects rather than objects.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “But what is “public property” if not an oxymoron?”

5. “But what is “public property” if not an oxymoron?”

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “This book argues that staying alive – for every species – requires livable collaborations. Collaboration means working across difference, which leads to contamination. Without collaborations, we all die.”

6. “This book argues that staying alive – for every species – requires livable collaborations. Collaboration means working across difference, which leads to contamination. Without collaborations, we all die.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “The contrast between private mushrooms and fungi-forming forest traffic might be an emblem for commoditisation more generally: the continual, never-finished cutting off of entanglement.”

7. “The contrast between private mushrooms and fungi-forming forest traffic might be an emblem for commoditisation more generally: the continual, never-finished cutting off of entanglement.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “Over the past few decades many kinds of scholars have shown that allowing only human protagonists into our stories is not just ordinary human bias. It is a cultural agenda tied to dreams of progress through modernization.”

8. “Over the past few decades many kinds of scholars have shown that allowing only human protagonists into our stories is not just ordinary human bias. It is a cultural agenda tied to dreams of progress through modernization.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “It’s not easy to know how to make a life, much less avert planetary destruction. Luckily there is still company, human and not human.”

9. “It’s not easy to know how to make a life, much less avert planetary destruction. Luckily there is still company, human and not human.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “People and trees are caught in irreversible histories of disturbance. But some kinds of disturbance have been followed by regrowth of a sort that nurtures many lives.”

10. “People and trees are caught in irreversible histories of disturbance. But some kinds of disturbance have been followed by regrowth of a sort that nurtures many lives.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “Capitalism is a translation machine for producing capital from all kinds of livelihoods, human and not human.”

11. “Capitalism is a translation machine for producing capital from all kinds of livelihoods, human and not human.”

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Quote: “In its secular forms, then, this cosmological politics exceeds Christianity; to be an American, you must convert, not to Christianity, but to American democracy.”

12. “In its secular forms, then, this cosmological politics exceeds Christianity; to be an American, you must convert, not to Christianity, but to American democracy.”

— Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

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