Questions for this week:
What does a focus on food tell us about social structure and our links with nature? How does fast food, junk food, and food waste modify our conceptions of the self and relations with each other? Why is there so much food waste? Is reclaiming free food waste in this way an effective form of resistance or critique to capitalist waste? What’s the legality and ethics of going through trash, and should we care?
Readings:
Kennedy, Greg. “Food.” In An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature. SUNY Series in Environmental Philosophy and Ethics. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007, 55–88.
Barnard, Alex V. “A Brief History of a Tomato.” In Freegans: Diving into the Wealth of Food Waste in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 1–23.
California v. Greenwood. 1988. 486 U.S. 35. (selections)