Introduction

Eben Kirksey, Craig Schuetze, and Stefan Helmreich

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Part I Blasted Landscapes

 

Chapter 1 Hope in Blasted Landscapes

Eben Kirksey, Nicholas Shapiro, and Maria Brodine

Chapter 2 R.A.W. Assmilk Soap

Karin Bolender

Chapter 3 Blasted Landscapes (And the Gentle Arts of Mushroom Picking)

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, for the Matsutake Worlds Research Group

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Part II Edible Companions

Interlude Microbiopolitics

Heather Paxson

Recipe 1 Plumpiñon

Lindsay Kelley

Recipe 2 Human Cheese

Miriam Simun

Recipe 3 Multispecies Communities

Eben Kirksey

Recipe 4 Bitter Medicine Is Stronger

Linda Noel, Christine Hamilton, Anna Rodriguez, Angela James, Nathan Rich, David S. Edmunds, and Kim TallBear

Chapter 4 Life Cycle of a Common Weed

Caitlin Berrigan

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Part III The Age of Biotechnology

 

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

Donna J. Haraway

The MULTISPECIES SALON

EBEN KIRKSEY, EDITOR

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Durham and London
2014

TO THE SPIRIT OF BEATRIZ DA COSTA