As an analytic tool, disturbance requires awareness of the observer's perspective – just as with the best tools in social theory. Deciding what counts as disturbance is always a matter of point of view. From a human's vantage,the disturbance that destroysan anthill is vastly different from that obliterating a human city. From an ant's perspective,the stakes are different.Points of view also vary within species. [...] No single standard for assessing disturbance is possible; disturbance matters in relation to how we live. —Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, 2015