Bruno Latour’s (“lah-TUER’s”) review of this book for A History of the Social Sciences in 101 Books compliments it for going particularly far in avoiding anthropocentrism. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this book by Anna Lowenhaupt (“loe-WEHN-howpt”) Tsing about the precarious lives of harvesters of the matsutake.
ANSWER: The Mushroom At The End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
[10e] The Mushroom At The End of the World critically discusses this time period, which names a project of Tsing’s at Aarhus (“AHR-huess”) University. This proposed geological epoch refers to when humans have substantially impacted Earth.
ANSWER: Anthropocene
[10m] Along with this feminist scholar, Tsing proposed the term “Plantationocene” as a replacement for the Anthropocene. This author, who criticized primatology in Primate Visions, also wrote A Cyborg Manifesto.
ANSWER: Donna J. Haraway
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