The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Published 2015 · 91,025 words · about 9 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins to read?
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins scores 67 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 65 out of 100
- Anthropological and ecological vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Clear sentences arranged in deliberately broken sections.
- Abstraction: 78 out of 100
- Capitalism, ecology and precarity handled as one conceptual problem.
- Information density: 75 out of 100
- Dense with fieldwork across four countries.
How The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins is regarded
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins holds a literary regard score of 69 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.