University of Ottawa, Simard 125
4:00pm - 6:30pm
Title: Critical Description after Progress: Recognizing Diversity in Damaged Times
Abstract: As we lose expectations of progress, how shall we know the world? This talk introduces "critical description," a genre for reinvigorating curiosity about heterogeneity, after progress. The talk draws from Anna Tsing's book in progress: Living in ruins. Capitalism, blasted landscapes, and the possibilities of life on earth: a mushroom story. Based on research tracking the global search for high-value gourmet wild mushrooms called matsutake, the talk explores emerging lines of cosmopolitan difference and the challenges of making lives ...