through a Place-Thought Framework Anna Tsing in her book The Mushroom at the End of the World writes about the emergence of the matsutake mushroom in precarious environments, and calls attention to the power of the state of precarity to reveal “patchy landscapes, multiple temporalities, and shifting assemblages of humans and nonhumans: the very stuff of collaborative survival.”143 Dismantling Capitalism creates a precarious world, and without the notion of progress, humankind survives as scavengers off of the affordances of the land and the technologies scavenged. This systemic breakdown of Eurocentric ontological frameworks, allows for patchy assemblages of multispecies, collaborative survival to exist in vulnerability with each other. These images are a manifestation of this imagination—affordances perceived differently by beings—where collaborative survival allows multipilicities of temporalities to create a patchy landscape. This patchy landscape in the Capitalocene would be bulldozed by narratives of progress and exploited as resources, but in a postcapitalist world is allowed to exist as an objective reality.
143. Tsing, 5.
