Creating New Food Systems ETH WFS 2015
So the topic of this session is innovation and social change in the food system. I’m going to start with some examples of innovation. There
New heroes … New masculinities …
A few days ago I was sitting at Maso A Kobliha in Prague (at the recommendation of the excellent Taste of Prague Blog), savoring a plate
“Many fights, and many kisses” lifetime tables by MBzwo
“We try to keep the distance between the customer and the workshop as short as possible…These are objects that I want to be used. And it should be used hard. That’s what they’re made for…Buying a table takes a long time. It takes months….Most of these people are buying the last table for their life…For me it would be a success if the grandchildren still like the table.
The Future should be Durable
Interview with Stefan Schridde, founder of the Murks Center against planned obsolescence. Murks means “botch”, or “bad work”. “Products designed with planned obsolescence don’t meet the needs of the society.” He sees cheap consumer goods as “lonely” and the alternative is a “durable” future.
Zagreus art/dinner
Dinner at Zagreus. Best €36 I’ve ever spent. Every bite was so delightful. Zagreus is an art gallery owned by a chef. Every exhibit inspires
Introduction to Street Protest, Blockupy Workshop in preparation for Frankfurt ECB 2015
1. Why Street Protest
• a fundamental right and contribution to democracy is to express our dissent
• collective manifestation of dissent creates news, encourages others, threatens elites
• the way to win (reforms) is to raise the costs of the current way of doing things until it becomes in the interests of the elites to do it our way
• threat/promise to take over
Protest Institute: From ideology to ideas, from social movement to social change: a biography, a case study, a dinner party
“You have presented things I have never seen in the same chain of meanings.”
The mechanics of the struggle for hegemony: a case study of Local Food (at RLS)
Lecture to the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 5 February 2015.
Protected: Practices: Purity versus politics
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Why are the San Francisco street protests so robust? Interview with San Francisco Magazine
Historical evidence insists that oppression on its own does not produce social movement reaction. In places with little culture of resistance, there will be little social movement reaction to social problems, or occasional outbursts may not be sustained. San Francisco has had, regularly and recently over the last decades, a series of effective and sustained street manifestations, so there are people, organizations, networks, systems, etc. to make the next ones bigger and more robust.
Love & Rage,
Amory
