What We’re Thinking About Right Now
20 June, 2022
Planting and Becoming - Journal #128 June 2022
eflux
Several autonomous farming collectives
The global food system is a violent mess. It is rooted in neocolonialism, manufactured scarcity, and mass alienation. The enclosure of farms and subsistence forms of life has destroyed social and collective knowledges of how to produce and share food. It’s no accident that attempts to create food autonomy and collectivize its production and distribution, even on a local scale, have been met with state violence—ask any Food Not Bombs chapter. For this issue of e-flux journal on agriculture and the social bonds inherent to food, we have invited autonomous collectives, farmers, and artists to talk about their projects in short communiques from the garden, forest, or pasture. Spread over much of Turtle Island, they offer tactics to uproot capital and share stories about the lands they inhabit.
Planting and Becoming - Journal #128 June 2022
eflux
Several autonomous farming collectives
The global food system is a violent mess. It is rooted in neocolonialism, manufactured scarcity, and mass alienation. The enclosure of farms and subsistence forms of life has destroyed social and collective knowledges of how to produce and share food. It’s no accident that attempts to create food autonomy and collectivize its production and distribution, even on a local scale, have been met with state violence—ask any Food Not Bombs chapter. For this issue of e-flux journal on agriculture and the social bonds inherent to food, we have invited autonomous collectives, farmers, and artists to talk about their projects in short communiques from the garden, forest, or pasture. Spread over much of Turtle Island, they offer tactics to uproot capital and share stories about the lands they inhabit.
Exhaustion et Exhuberance
Jan VanWoert
(2008)
This slow [person/plant] may turn out to be a guardian of the social equilibrium, protecting peace and sanity by preventing restless performers like you from changing things for the worse.
*edit ours, changed from “man” in original text.
Jan VanWoert
(2008)
This slow [person/plant] may turn out to be a guardian of the social equilibrium, protecting peace and sanity by preventing restless performers like you from changing things for the worse.
*edit ours, changed from “man” in original text.