Elise’s Reviews > The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins > Status Update

" We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and ecological rumination. "

" If we end the story with decay, we abandon all hope—or turn our attention to other sites of promise and ruin, promise and ruin. "

This book is a challenge to the psyche. The news that the future is nebulous and qualitative strikes fear into my quantifiable-data-loving heart. But I guess she's RIGHT....

"What if, as I'm suggesting, precarity is the condition of our time... what is precarity, indeterminacy, and what we imagine as trivial are the center of the systematicity we seek?"