You mentioned the potential importance of food for a socialist project in the latest Life of the Party - a notion that I wholeheartedly agree with - so I am really happy to have found your expanded thoughts here in this article! Really well articulated, and makes me wonder whether there's a potential categorisations for a hyperfocused political project (Like Zohran's campaign), based around food and housing. Food-and-home-socialism? Maslow's-Physiological-Socialism? Roof-over-head-and-grub-on-plate-socialism?!
Adorno uses 'culinary' as a term of disparagement, high art curmudgeon that he is. I think tying the sensuous qualities of cooking to struggles across different levels of state and society, as you've done here, gives a very helpful perspective. The contemporary artist Mohammed Z Rahman works with similar subject material and I feel would be helped along with the way you've argued it. In case of interest:
I think it’s insane how so few politicians actually talking about this and have a vision for how our lives should look like. I have some thoughts about this too, if anyone could give feedback on it: https://open.substack.com/pub/ethicsinsocietyandothermusings/p/the-lack-of-vision-in-society-is?r=77dzpb&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
Of interest, perhaps:
https://open.substack.com/pub/thestruggleforland/p/nationalise-everything-or-why-we?r=2svo2u&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
You mentioned the potential importance of food for a socialist project in the latest Life of the Party - a notion that I wholeheartedly agree with - so I am really happy to have found your expanded thoughts here in this article! Really well articulated, and makes me wonder whether there's a potential categorisations for a hyperfocused political project (Like Zohran's campaign), based around food and housing. Food-and-home-socialism? Maslow's-Physiological-Socialism? Roof-over-head-and-grub-on-plate-socialism?!
Adorno uses 'culinary' as a term of disparagement, high art curmudgeon that he is. I think tying the sensuous qualities of cooking to struggles across different levels of state and society, as you've done here, gives a very helpful perspective. The contemporary artist Mohammed Z Rahman works with similar subject material and I feel would be helped along with the way you've argued it. In case of interest:
https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/mohammed-z-rahman-hearthside/
Thanks Allan, this looks wonderful I’ll check them out!