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Le Suicide / Will Benedict, Steffen Jørgensen.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Restaurant.
- The Restaurant ; Episode 04
- Subjects (All):
- Gastronomy.
- Dinners and dining.
- Food--Social aspects.
- Food.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- online resource (1 video file (6 min, 42 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : DIS.ART 2019.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- "Siri, How do you make chicken? As Steve Kado writes, "The Restaurant" is a fable of our own metabolic moral economy, a world-inside-a-stomach populated by embodied libidinal forces both earthly and celestial. Benedict and Jørgensen zoom in directly on the hot locus where grotesque global inequality meets our daily lives - namely the food experience. How else to name the transformation of the most basic metabolic process, something fundamental to life since our mono-cellular ancestors drifted in plasmal seas, to an activity so overdetermined that in order to eat we need not just food but: the entire apparatus of the internet, with it's heavy breathing servers; all the ink and paper that newspapers, books, and guides use up; all the air, water and calories we burn thinking; a state, with laws to defend our property, and militarized squads to enact and reinforce those laws; and finally, all the hours of time and effort we spend deciding and evaluating where, how and with what our experience is to be had." --DIS.ART
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