Tsing explores how life persists and even thrives amid capitalist and ecological ruins through the story of the matsutake mushroom — a species that flourishes in disturbed landscapes. Drawing from anthropology and ecology, she reveals the entangled survival of humans and nonhumans in precarious worlds. The Mushroom at the End of the World is both an ethnographic study and a philosophical meditation, inviting designers and thinkers to see collaboration, uncertainty, and interdependence as conditions for new, life-centered futures.