Introduction

Abstract

Introduction / Eben Kirksey, Craig Schuetze, and Stefan Helmreich -- chapter 1. Hope in blasted landscapes / Eben Kirksey, Nick Shapiro, and Maria Brodine -- chapter 2. R.A.W. Assmilk soap / Karin Bolender -- chapter 3. Blasted landscapes (and the gentle art of mushroom picking) / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, for the Matsutake Worlds Research Group -- Interlude: Microbiopolitics / Heather Paxson -- Recipe I. Plumpiñon / Lindsay Kelley -- Recipe II. Human cheese / Miriam Simun -- Recipe III. Multispecies becomings / Eben Kirksey -- Recipe IV. Bitter medicine is stronger / Linda Noel, Christine Hamilton, Anna Rodriguez, Angela James, Nathan Rich, David S. Edmunds, and Kim TallBear -- chapger 4. Life cycle of a common weed / Caitlin Berrigan -- chapter 5. Life in the age of biotechnology / Eben Kirksey, Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, and Dorion Sagan -- chapter 6. Invertebrate visions : diffractions of the brittlestar / Karen Barad -- chapter 7. Speculative fabulations for technoculture's generations : taking care of unexpected country / Donna J. Haraway.