# Anna Tsing
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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (born 1952) is an American anthropologist. She is a professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2018, she was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Bonus: Creature Needs with Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent, and Christopher Kondrich
A scientific abstract can tell you a species is declining. A story can make you feel what that loss means and why it should change how you live. In this episode Claudia talks to Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent, and Christopher Kondrich, the co-editors behind Creature Needs, a striking book that juxtapos…
Bonus: Creature Needs with Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent, and Christopher Kondrich
A scientific abstract can tell you a species is declining. A story can make you feel what that loss means and why it should change how you live. In this episode Claudia talks to Lucy Spelman, Susan Tacent, and Christopher Kondrich, the co-editors behind Creature Needs, a striking book that juxtapos…
Episode 37: Anna Tsing, "The Mushroom at the End of the World" (1/2)
In this episode I look at The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing. In this first half of the book we explore the human history of the matsutake mushroom. This great book will be the conclusion of this series that began with our look at The Moral Economy of the Peasant so many months ago.
Episode 38: Anna Tsing, "The Mushroom at the End of the World" (2/2)
A pretty short episode capping off this rather long series on James Scott and others.
Anna Tsing's thoughts on disturbed areas is amazing and relevant to how to make sense of our disrupted world.
I guess I was excited to start my look at Sven Beckert's Capitalism: A Global History. Not sure if he…
#3 MONSTERS & GHOSTS: Sci-Fi Figures Queering the “Human” in Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
This is the third lecture for the 2024 summer session of ENGLISH 3372 for The Ohio State University, taught by PhD Candidate Peyton Del Toro.
This lecture breaks down the theoretical reading of the week: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet by Heather Swanson, Anna Tsing, Nils Bubandt, and Elaine G…
Anna Tsing on the Patchy Anthropocene
In this episode we are bringing you a recording of a special event we hosted with anthropologist Anna Tsing, whose work has reshaped how we think about capitalism, ecology, and life in a damaged world. Anna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Aarhus U…
Can Humans and Fungi Design Together?
In today’s episode, host Hannah Balber discusses the agency and design capabilities of fungi with our guest Feifei Zhou. Feifei is an architect and artist who co-curated Fungi. Anarchist Designers together with anthropologist Anna Tsing. The exhibition asks what happens when we stop thinking of fun…
Transnational Solidarity: Exploring Alternate Global Imaginaries of Work
This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lucy Pei can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2026/09/transnational-solidarity-exploring-alternate-global-imaginaries-of-work/. About the post: What is the significance of gig worker activists’ claim on the global sc…
PYROPHILES: ON FIRE & FUNGI | Maya Han
On this spoiler-free episode of the Global Ecological Cinema Podcast, we sit down with Maya Han to talk about her short experimental essay film, PYROPHILES: ON FIRE AND FUNGI. Investigating the phenomenon of pyrophilous (fire loving) fungi, this Official Selection of the 2026 Portland EcoFilm Festi…
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