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E-book Eating beside Ourselves : Thresholds of Foods and Bodies

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Eating, after all, is not strictly a human activity. Eating beside Ourselvesasks what can be learned by recognizing that what makes food food, in both substance and significance, concerns its relation to a myriad of eaters—not only human eaters but others besides. In turning organic substances into food, acts of eating create webs of relations, interconnected food chains organized by relative conditions of edibility, through which eaters may in turn become eaten. “As a mode of doing,” note Sebastian Abrahamsson, Filippo Bertoni, Annemarie Mol, and Rebeca Ibáñez Martín (2015, 15), “eating crucially in-cludes transforming: food into eater and eater into a well-fed rather than an undernourished creature. But, as it is through eating and feeding that diverse beings or substances fuse, in the end you never quite know who or what has done it.” Hannah Landecker (2015, 257) writes similarly, “‘You’ and ‘what you eat’ are difficult to define, if you contain both generations and multitudes, and what you eat turns out...to itself contain worlds of industry and produc-tion.” As both myriad and cumulative, the eating self recalls the digital self described by Brian Rotman in Becoming beside Ourselves. In the digital age, he writes, “Self-other boundaries thought previously to be uncrossable” are increasingly breaking down; the “I” of the digital self “is porous, spilling out of itself, traversed by other ‘I’s networked to it, permeated by the collectives of other selves.” Plural and distributed, the “I” is “becoming beside itself ” (2008, 8). For Rotman, becoming “beside oneself ” is “a form of temporal change, becoming party to a condition other than one’s own” (103). The digital self is a condition of living at the threshold of self and other(s), present and future. The condition of eating, we propose, is similar.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

301 PAX e

Penerbit

Durham : Duke University Press., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

249 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781478024064

Klasifikasi

301

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Sociology and Anthropology, Society

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