Anna L. Tsing - What We Can Learn From a Mushroom

A mushroom that teaches us about vulnerability, disassociation and capitalism? We discuss how to live in an environment which is disrupted by humans.

This talk was performed in front of a live audience at Brainwash Festival 2021 in Amsterdam.

[VelhaGuardaTricolor]

15:10 forget about timeline, we need to find what causes it and remove it.

[saragordon]

Very valuable insights, thank you Anna. Such a coherent distillation of critical, but in many ways, simple notions, that we have over-complicated and as you say allowed to mask the real 'truth'; behind notions like growth, profit, or progress. I was however discombobulated by the chaotically muddled and almost incoherent interviewer. In kindness, I put it down to nerves-but very distracting, all the same.

[AudioPervert]

we spend so much energy, time, video, audio etc etc and overall logistics, just to be able to discuss (feel happy for the moment) about something, that at best is available to a tiny fraction of humanity. Speaking of the real vulnerability, disassociation and LATE capitalism.

[AbreuRaul-ipzh]

Wow! I am from Angola... May you help me???

[VelhaGuardaTricolor]

Everything she says is right, however is like saying Earth is not always flat. Instead of saying Earth is a GLOBE. People like her simply fail to see clearly how sick Capitalism actually is.
Albert Einstein wrote about it back in the 40's and was already obvious.
Karl Marx also wrote about it and it was already obvious.
Jean Jacque Rousseau, Proudhon, Chomsky, etc....

It is not a matter of opinion, it is simply a scientific fact. Business as usual = Sick as usual

Shouldn't we aim for a healthy society?

[sohux]

Anna may be theoretically correct but honestly she has no clue nor can she prove it.