Art Metropole

#04874

Collapse Volume VII: Culinary Materialism

Date

2011

Publisher

Sequence Press

Format

Artists' Books

Details

Softcover

Size

11.5 × 17.5 × 3 cm

Length

631 

Description

Collapse VII: Culinary Materialism brings together work that explores, from many different perspectives, the multifaceted question of cookery. In this volume, a range of contributors – scientists, philosophers, chefs, anthropologists, artists – explore how philosophy and proto- scientific theory and experimental practice was linked at its outset to the culinary arts; and chart the consequences of the contemporary return of cookery to scientific precision, in the rarefied world of haute cuisine as in the world of mass- manufactured confections. Along the way we discover that the question of cookery is bound up with some profound and enduring issues in the history of philosophy, and can also suggest new approaches to contemporary philosophical problems.

Contents

ROBIN MACKAY & REZA NEGARESTA Editorial Introduction

IAIN HAMILTON GRANT – The Chemical Paradigm (Interview)

JOHN GERRARD & MICHAEL A. MORRIS – Corn Bomb: An Extended History of Nitrogen

FIELDCLUB – Whey To Go: On the Hominid Appropriation of the Pig-Function

RICK DOLPHIJN – The New Alimentary Continuum

MANABRATA GUHA – Vague Weaponizations, or The Chemistry of Para-Tactical Engagements

CAROL GOODDEN – FOOD and the City (Interview)

AO& – Where’s the Edge of the Pot? (Interview)

JOHN COCHRAN – Object-Oriented Cookery

RICHARD WRANGHAM – Reason in the Roasting of Eggs

VANINA LESCHZINER AND ANDREW DAKIN – Theorizing Cuisine from Medieval to Modern Times: Cognitive Structures, the Biology of Taste, and Culinary Conventions

SEAN DAY – The Human Sensoria and a Synaesthetic Approach to Cooking

JEREMY MILLAR – Black Cake (A Recipe for Emily Dickinson, for Emily Dickinson)

DAN AND NANDITA MELLAMPHY – Ec[h]ologies of the Désêtre EDUARDO VIVEIROS DE CASTRO – The Metaphysics of Predation

EUGENE THACKER – Spiritual Meat: Resurrection and Religious Horror in Bataille

DOROTHÉE LEGRAND – Ex-Nihilo: Forming a Body Out of Nothing

FERNANDO ZALAMEA – Analytical Jelly and Transmodern Tatin

GABRIEL CATREN – On Philosophical Alchimery, Or Why All Chimeric Compositions are Philosophical Stones

APPENDIX OF RECIPES – Compiled by the editors

Numbered Edition of 1000

ISBN 978-0-9553087-9-6
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