The Anthropocene Cookbook
Recipes and Opportunities for Future Catastrophes
Seiten
2022
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-04740-1 (ISBN)
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-04740-1 (ISBN)
More than sixty speculative art and design projects explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes.
In the Age of the Anthropocene—an era characterized by human-caused climate disaster—catastrophes and dystopias loom. The Anthropocene Cookbook takes our planetary state of emergency as an opportunity to seize the moment to imagine constructive change and new ideas. How can we survive in an age of constant environmental crises? How can we thrive? The Anthropocene Cookbook answers these questions by presenting a series of investigative art and design projects that explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes. This cookbook of ideas rethinks our eating habits and traditions, challenges our food taboos, and proposes new recipes for humanity’s survival.
These more than sixty projects propose new ways to think and make food, offering tools for creative action rather than traditional recipes. They imagine modifying the human body to digest cellulose, turning plastic into food, tasting smog, extracting spices and medicines from sewage, and growing meat in the lab. They investigate provocative possibilities: What if we made cheese using human bacteria, enabled human photosynthesis through symbiosis with algae, and brought back extinct species in order to eat them? The projects are diverse in their creative approaches and their agendas—multilayered, multifaceted, hybrid, and cross-pollinated. The Anthropocene Cookbook offers a survival guide for a future gone rogue, a road map to our edible futures.
In the Age of the Anthropocene—an era characterized by human-caused climate disaster—catastrophes and dystopias loom. The Anthropocene Cookbook takes our planetary state of emergency as an opportunity to seize the moment to imagine constructive change and new ideas. How can we survive in an age of constant environmental crises? How can we thrive? The Anthropocene Cookbook answers these questions by presenting a series of investigative art and design projects that explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes. This cookbook of ideas rethinks our eating habits and traditions, challenges our food taboos, and proposes new recipes for humanity’s survival.
These more than sixty projects propose new ways to think and make food, offering tools for creative action rather than traditional recipes. They imagine modifying the human body to digest cellulose, turning plastic into food, tasting smog, extracting spices and medicines from sewage, and growing meat in the lab. They investigate provocative possibilities: What if we made cheese using human bacteria, enabled human photosynthesis through symbiosis with algae, and brought back extinct species in order to eat them? The projects are diverse in their creative approaches and their agendas—multilayered, multifaceted, hybrid, and cross-pollinated. The Anthropocene Cookbook offers a survival guide for a future gone rogue, a road map to our edible futures.
Zane Cerpina is a curator and writer working within experimental and digital arts. Stahl Stenslie is a curator and researcher specializing in experimental and emerging aesthetics, and disruptive technologies who has held positions at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and Aalborg University.
Introduction 1
1 Cooking for Survival 19
2 Ecological Crisis Menu 31
3 Anthropocene Specials 49
4 Fake Foodies 71
5 Human Deli 91
6 Bug Buffet 117
7 Future Superfoods 143
8 Future Junk Food 163
9 Fantastic Cuisine 179
10 Outlook 191
Acknowledgments 199
Notes 203
Selected Bibliography 233
Illustration Credits 251
Index 255
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.10.2022 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 59 colour illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie |
| Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-262-04740-3 / 0262047403 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-262-04740-1 / 9780262047401 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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