The Mushroom at the End of the World : On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

When Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945, it is said, the first living thing to emerge from the blasted landscape was a matsutake mushroom.

Through alienation, people and things become mobile assets; they can be removed from their life worlds in distance-defying transport to be exchanged with other assets from other life worlds, elsewhere.

for twentieth-century scientists, progress also unselfconsciously framed the study of landscapes.