The Mushroom At The End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins - 2024 Penn Bowl UNC

Question

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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2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley	11/02/2024	Y	2	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU	11/02/2024	Y	4	7.50	50%	25%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago	11/02/2024	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Florida	10/26/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard	10/26/2024	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite	11/02/2024	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl Playtest	10/12/2024	Y	4	27.50	100%	100%	75%
2024 Penn Bowl Texas	11/02/2024	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 Penn Bowl UK	10/26/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
2024 Penn Bowl UNC	10/26/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

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Duke A	UNC A	10	0	10
UNC C	UNC B	10	10	20
RIT A	Virginia Tech A	10	0	10