Work Futures Daily | Without Handrails
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Beacon NY — 2019–08–04 | Back in Beacon. It hasn’t changed much in a week, but I have (see below).
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Reading The Mushroom At The End Of The World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Perhaps the best work in ecology economics I’ve encountered. I will be writing about it in depth once I’ve finished… although ‘finished’ is probably the wrong word. Oh, and you’ll learn a lot about the matsutake mushroom.
Tsing wrote:
This book is not a critique of the dreams of modernization and progress that offered a vision of stability in the twentieth century; many analysts before me have dissected those dreams. Instead, I address the imaginative challenges of living without those handrails, which once made us think we knew, collectively, where we were going.
Here’s what Ursula Le Guin said about the work:
Scientists and artists know that the way to handle an immense topic is often through close attention to a small aspect of it, revealing…
