Download e-book for kindle: Collapse Volume VII: Culinary Materialism by Various, Reza Negarestani, Robin Mackay

By Various, Reza Negarestani, Robin Mackay

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ISBN-13: 9780955308796

ISBN-10: 0956775098

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Cookery hasn't ever been so excessive at the schedule of Western pop culture. And but the endlessly-multiplying television exhibits, the obsessive curiosity within the provenance of constituents, and the get together of 'radical' experiments in gastronomy, let us know little in regards to the nature of the culinary. Is it attainable to keep up that cookery has a philosophical pertinence with no basically appending philosophy to our burgeoning gastroculture? How may well the standard feel of the culinary be increased right into a philosophy of 'culinary materialism' in which synthesis, experimentation, and operations of combining and mixing take priority over research, subtraction and axiomatisation?

Drawing on assets starting from anthropology to chemistry, from airtight alchemy to modern arithmetic, 'Collapse VII: Culinary Materialism' undertakes a trans-modal scan in culinary pondering. quite a lot of participants together with philosophers, cooks, artists, historians,and synaesthetes research the cultural, business, physiological, alchemical or even cosmic dimensions of cookery, and suggest new types of culinary suggestion for the longer term.

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See Appendix to COLLAPSE III. 2. See I . H . Grant, Philosophies efNature after Schelling, 2nd edition (London: Continuum, 2008), 19-2 1 . 39 COLLAPSE VII COLLAPSE : In the context of this volume on Culi­ nary Materialism - cookery as a possible model for or provocation to philosophical thought, as an activity as unique to humans as philosophical thought, we would like to delve into the specificity of chemistry, and to understand why you have proposed it in various places in your work as a particularly important model for thinking.

The empirical side is to do with messing around in bodies with internal complexities which are both irre­ ducible and non-organised ( in organic sense) . And the other side is that, as a model for epistemology, there is nothing that substitutes for chemistry's ambition to synthesise its products as well as analyse them. ' We would, of course, like to add that all of these practices were most likely born in the kitchen. For instance it has been suggested that chemistry was 'invented' with the burning of malachite, which would release molten metals that would run out from under the cooking pot .

Elemente eine Geschichte der Wissenschaflen (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1 994) . 671 . See also B. Bensaude-Vincent and Stengers, A History qJ Chemistry A History qJ Chemistry, trans. 0. van Dam (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1996) . 59 COLLAPSE VII philosophy, many of which make claims beyond their fundamentally Fichtean metaphysics. C: What are the implications of extinction for a chemi­ cal paradigm of nature and chemophilosophy? If proton decay really occurs, then this means the end of chemistry proper.

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