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2 Tsing’s use of ‘translation’ builds on the work of Shiho Satsuka. See Tsing, Anna, The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015, p. 62 CrossRefGoogle Scholar .
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