It’s almost time for matsutake mushroom season...the temporary rhythm is annually, but for trees the cycle is much longer... metal scraps might be one off, but would the skills learned to operate a timber mill not be enough?
Anna Tsing (2015) on salvage rhythms, or “forms of temporal coordination” organised on the fringes of market economies. Through these rhythms precarious lives are sustained on waste, and by the salvage performed that waste is returned in new forms into the system.pic.twitter.com/6chx2X3nRe
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Here is kind of the reverse from with smaller suppliers being left with no trees to being left with too many (apple) trees. Sorry, I don't have the full text, what type of regulation does Anna Tsing call for in her book?https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jul/23/orchards-to-be-bulldozed-as-heineken-axes-apple-growing-contracts …
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From memory, Tsing doesn’t advocate any particular laws. But she does examine the different approaches of the Japanese, Chinese, and American pickers, sellers, and governments to the fluctuating harvest—and what that says about their ideas of nature, economy, and sustainability.
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I find sustainability a very difficult issue to address, while it's trivial at the two extremes, ie complete disregard for the future vs dogmatic moral prison of the present, in the middle, a whole spectrum is infinite uncertain parameters with conflict of interest stakeholders.
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That's very much something that Tsing addresses. The irony she points out is that matsutake grows specifically in disturbed forests (where broad-leafs have been felled and pine has moved in) -- something which American ideals of pristine & unspoilt nature don't account for.
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This single irony makes me want to read the whole book, so different from the impression (liberal-leftish) I got from other quotes and highlights...
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