Farming In the Shadow of the Shadow State
Growing food and getting free in a world built for agricultural capital
Sowing Scarcity
...often revolve around nebulous health concerns, but the Bowman case suggests a different problem: capitalist agriculture puts science to work in the service of increasing profits rather than improving farming....
A Taste of Cesium
...ride them to town.” Another seven escapees were rounded up by a squad from the Ministry of Agriculture in January 2012, aside from one elusive male who remained in the...
Natural’s Not In It
...notion that humans adapted to vastly different circumstances than the ones they live under today — that before the relatively recent shift to an agriculture, industry- and internet-based society, we...
Weight Gains
...Capitalist agriculture has found the best spot to store its surplus in the bodies of workers. It happened last summer without much media fanfare: Mexico surpassed the United States...
Victory and Its Consequences (Part I)
...of short-sighted, incisive anger. Through the lens of this critique, a food garden of a few hundred square meters becomes synonymous with industrial agriculture and the construction of a large...
Sunday Reading
...Marginal quote: “First, it means trusting people themselves to make choices, rather than handing those choices over to professionals (architects and engineers).” A future of urban agriculture A past of...
Victory and Its Consequences (Part II)
...to create a desirable future for the ZAD post-cancellation.10 We could name some other desirable futures: fighting against land grabs by industrial agriculture; self-built housing that frees itself from urban...
The Slopes of Davos
...from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization: “climatesmart.” Being climate smart means searching for synergies across mitigation and adaptation, across the demands of the carbon cycle and the GDP –...
The Austerity Kitchen on the Radio
...community-supported agriculture, and home economics — its history and amenability to progressive politics. You can hear the interview by clicking here or by visiting the page for the episode that...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 35: Sick
...diabetes. Instead, he finds it to be a product of capitalist agriculture’s need to find a place to store its glut, which it resolves (as always) with the bodies of...
A Detrimental Education
Zaina Alsous talks with Eli Meyerhoff about his book Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World.
Bitter Medicine
...they can’t. At the dawn of industrial agriculture and medicine, this contradiction produced the pseudoscience of homeopathic chemistry as a way of reasserting sovereignty over the body at a moment...
Sunday Reading
...twisted cliches On Cairo’s Agriculture Museum, a “weird and wild hall of wonders” Arabic Manuscripts Digital Library of Jerusalem Jack Cheng on the Slow Web Movement On the system of...
World of Weathercraft
...seeding to aid agriculture and reservoirs is a common, though scientifically dubious, practice. Weather control is a common plot device in science fiction, showing up in films like The Avengers,...
Sunday Reading
...of staff-driven unionism “A new, disassembled, fitting-and-starting labor movement.” How to make up and spread a “weird Japan” story Local knowledge, bad press, and the future of Fukushima agriculture...