The Western Center for Social Impact and Innovation (Miami University) presents Unfinished: Stories on the End of the World. We've been told many kinds of ending tales. Religious and Scientific, Science Fiction and folklore. In this podcast we will discuss these stories and suggest that the end of the world is less of a single terrifying event in a distant future and more of a multitude of events that have been around for a long time. If the world is ending, we must ask... what is ending... and for whom.
Episodes
Oct 3, 2020
Oct 3, 2020
8 min
This short introduction describes a little about this podcast and the series of chapters that compose the first episode, called The Mushroom at the End of World after Anna Tsing's book.
Oct 3, 2020
Oct 3, 2020
14 min
Matsutake are punk mushrooms. They refuse to be cultivated, one of the reasons that make them the most expensive mushroom in the world. How are we suppose to find them, then?
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Oct 4, 2020
Oct 4, 2020
21 min
In this chapter, we discuss a brief overview of the biology of mushrooms and the nature of the relationship between fungi and some coniferous trees. What is in this relationship that make possible for trees to grow on very unpromising, dry and rocky soils?
Oct 4, 2020
Oct 4, 2020
17 min
Why are anthropologists interested in mushrooms? Encounters creates difference. In this chapter we discuss how Anna Tsing encountered matsutake mushrooms, and how the Brazilian group LABFICC created a project called Thinking with Fungi, affected by Anna Tsing's book.
Oct 4, 2020
Oct 4, 2020
15 min
In the first part of the fourth chapter, we will get to know a little more of the story of how matsutake disappeared in Japan - where they have once been abundant. What happened naturally and culturally for this outcome?
Oct 4, 2020
Oct 4, 2020
22 min
Could the disappearance of matsutake have something to do with their surprisingly appearance in the Eastern Cascades, state of Oregon? The 20th century was the place for different stories of matsutake in Japan and in Oregon. These stories with opposite outcomes can have more links than we would assume at first.
Oct 4, 2020
Oct 4, 2020
13 min
On the final chapter, we discuss what does it mean to think about the end of the world with the help of mycelia: Indeterminacy, adaptation and renovation.
Oct 6, 2020