Introduction / Eben Kirksey, Craig Schuetze, and Stefan Helmreich 1

Part I. Blasted Landscapes

1. Hope in Blasted Landscapes / Eben Kirksey, Nicholas Shapiro, and Maria Brodine 29

R. A. W. Assmilk Soap / Karin Bolender 64

3. Blasted Landscapes (And the Gentle Arts of Mushroom Picking) / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, for the Matsutake Worlds Research Group 87

Part II. Edible Companions

Interlude. Microbiopolitics / Heather Paxson 115

Recipe 1. Plumpiñon / Lindsay Kelley 122

Recipe 2. Human Cheese / Miriam Sumin 135

Recipe 3. Multispecies Communities / Eben Kirksey 145

Recipe 4. Bitter Medicine is Stronger / Linda Noel, Christine Hamilton, Anna Rodriguez, Angela James, Nathan Rich, David S. Edmunds, and Kim TallBear 154

4. Life Cycle of a Common Weed / Caitlin Berrigan 164

Part III. Life and Biotechnology

5. Life in the Age of Biotechnology / Eben Kirksey, Brandon Costelleo-Kuehn, and Dorion Sagan 185

6. Invertebrate Visions: Diffractions of the Brittlestar / Karen Barad 221

7. Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture's Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country / Donna J. Haraway 242

Acknowledgments 263

Bibliography 271

Contributors 289

Index 295