[lbo-talk] Food politics

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Nov 15 14:02:57 PST 2009


On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, brad bauerly wrote:


>> But I don't see how that invalidates the sifting of consumption
>> activities for meaning. Or gainsays that they are signs of collective
>> identities. Or that individual identities are at least partly
>> expressed through the way we each mix and match among them. And
>> perhaps especially in the ways we on the individual level harmonize
>> tastes that on the collective level are perceived as being in
>> opposition. Or vv.
>
> Doesn't the second part of this invalidate the first?

On the contrary, it's the condition of the first being at all interesting.

Michael



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