Der Pilz am Ende der Welt: Über das Leben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

3.99 AVERAGE

superiour_medium's review against another edition

I don’t think I’m smart enough/patient enough for this book
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voi_vikke's review against another edition

4.5
challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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bedbugbeyond's review against another edition

4.25
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Clearly well researched.

I do wish the narrator was someone able to pronounce non-English words and names better.
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amina2116's review against another edition

3.25
hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

chevril's review against another edition

5.0
emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced
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ruarilpa's review against another edition

4.5
medium-paced
I really enjoyed listening to this as an audiobook as I worked on numerous library shifts. One thing that really struck me, which is so not the point, but she's like this book took 15 years of research. And it really shows, it's so expansive and in-depth and soaring and ambitious and also very specific. It just made me sad because, well, I'm not sure if a book like this can even really exist any more in academia. Like who will be able to take that long to write something, to work on something. The anticapitalist book is anticapitalist in its very approach to productivity! Which is slay! I found it really quite moving. Helpfully it popped up in another book I've been reading about music and value, and yeah the main argument -about supply chains and there being pockets of 'not-capitalism' or 'outside of capitalism' within the broader structure - is very good. Congrats queen.

ssjavu's review against another edition

5.0
Tämä on yksi elämäni parhaista tiedekirjoista! Luin nyt toiseen kertaan. Tasoja on vaikka kuinka monta: itse sienet, niiden tutkimus, kapitalismi ja sen katveet, kulttuurierot ja etniset ryhmät, menetelmät ja tulevaisuuden tekeminen. Antropologiaa, joka ulottuu laajalle kuin sienirihmastot ja tupsauttelee yllättäviä itiöemiä maan pinnalle, ja nämä puolestaan tussauttavat ilmaan itiöitä, jotka villeissä kuvitelmiassa leviävät stratosfäärin kautta - ehkä kuitenkin todennäköisemmin ihmisten toiminnan myötä. 

Käännös on erinomainen. 
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ren_the_hobbit's review against another edition

4.0
hopeful informative slow-paced
I wasn’t sure what I was getting into with this book because I got it in a Libro.FM sale. But I actually really enjoyed it and was left with a thought of food for thought and shifts in perspective. 
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asmrbookishnesserin's review against another edition

3.5
informative reflective slow-paced

lawen03's review against another edition

2.5
informative reflective medium-paced