Food for Thought. Eating and relating in the 21th century (EN)
Gesa Jessen
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The seminar investigates eating as a fundamental practice of relating to oneself and others that ties together various forms of human belonging – biological, cultural, sociolinguistic, aesthetic. Taking our departure from New Materialism’s “turn to matter” we explore eating at the intersection of physical process, sensual experience, and symbolic act. Tackling both the ethical implications and the relational ontologies of eating, we will ask the following questions:
How does eating produce subjectivities? In which way does food contribute to the making of race, gender, and class? How are food networks embedded in colonial legacies? Under what conditions does eating or not-eating perpetuate structures of exploitation and how can eating become an emancipatory practice? How do we relate to the non-human world through growing, consuming, digesting, and discarding food? Which affects are mobilised by various aesthetic experiences surrounding food?
Combining approaches from philosophy and literary studies, we will take a closer look at the narratives and concepts that shape our understanding of food and eating in the context of colonial modernity, late capitalism and climate breakdown.
Reading and discussion will be in English, Hausarbeiten are equally welcome in both English and German.
Jasmine Onstad will assist the instructors as a student assistant/tutor.
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Wed, 2024-10-16 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2024-10-23 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2024-10-30 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2024-11-06 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2024-11-13 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2024-11-20 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2024-11-27 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2024-12-04 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2024-12-11 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2024-12-18 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2025-01-08 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2025-01-15 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2025-01-22 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2025-01-29 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2025-02-05 12:00 - 14:00 Wed, 2025-02-12 12:00 - 14:00