
Collapse: Volume 7
Culinary Materialism
Urbanomic (Publisher)
Published on 22. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
632 pages
978-0-9567750-9-2 (ISBN)
Description
Examination of the cultural, industrial, physiological, alchemical, and even cosmic dimensions of cookery, drawing anthropology, chemistry, hermetic alchemy and contemporary mathematics.Cookery has never been so high on the agenda of Western popular culture. And yet the endlessly-multiplying TV shows, the obsessive interest in the provenance of ingredients, and the celebration of "radical" experiments in gastronomy tell us little about the nature of the culinary. Is it possible to maintain that cookery has a philosophical pertinence without merely appending philosophy to our burgeoning gastroculture? How might the everyday sense of the culinary be expanded into a philosophy of "culinary materialism" wherein synthesis, experimentation, and operations of mixing and blending take precedence over analysis, subtraction, and axiomatisation?Drawing on resources ranging from anthropology to chemistry, from hermetic alchemy to contemporary mathematics, the seventh volume of Collapse undertakes a trans-modal experiment in culinary thinking. A wide range of contributors including philosophers, chefs, artists, historians, and synaesthetes examine the cultural, industrial, physiological, alchemical, and even cosmic dimensions of cookery, and propose new models of culinary thought for the future.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Falmouth
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Urbanomic Media Ltd
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
43 b&w illus.; 86 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 114 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-9567750-9-2 (9780956775092)
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Previous edition
Reza Negarestani | Robin James Mackay
Collapse: Philosophical Research and Development: Culinary Materialism Volume VII
Book
07/2011
Urbanomic
€36.08
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Urbanomic Media Ltd
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Urbanomic Media Ltd
University of the West of England