![]() ![]() To enlarge what is possible we need other kinds of stories, including adventures of landscapes. We forget that collaborative survival requires cross-species coordinations. By investigating one of the worlds most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth. ![]() We trample over them for our advancement. Their voices silent, we imagine wellbeing without them. Talking animals are for children and primitives. Indeed, how could it be otherwise? Yet expectations of progress block this insight. Anthropologists have become interested, for example, in how substance hunters recognize other living beings as persons, that is protagonists of stories. ![]() It is a cultural agenda tied to dreams of progress through modernization. Can I show landscape as the protagonist of an adventure in which humans are only one kind of participant? 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. This is the puzzle that informs this section of the book. Yet we are not used to reading stories without human heroes. But how does one tell the life of the forest? We might begin by looking for drama and adventure beyond the activities of humans. “To walk attentively through a forest, even a damaged one, is to be caught by the abundance of life: ancient and new underfoot and reaching into the light. ![]()
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