Reading Time: 2 minutes When we say “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism”, it can make you feel as if you’re the monster. You’re the target of the people who want a world without slavery, hunger, or children rationing their own insulin to help mom afford gas to get to her second job. They want to expand that …
On Oct 17, 2001, ten days into Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, BBC Monitoring recorded the following message broadcast to the Afghan people by US PsyOps:
Continue readingA Food Gift from the People of the United States“Attention, people of Afghanistan! Aid is being dropped by plane at a very high altitude using large parachutes. These parachutes slow their descent. Despite the parachutes, the bundles will still fall very fast. […] Do not stand directly below them. […] If you follow these instructions you will not be injured. The bundles are filled with food, water, and medical supplies. […] The United States does not want you, the innocent people of Afghanistan, to suffer for the deeds of Al Qaida and its leader Osama bin laden.”
US Department of Defense Flyer: “The Partnership of Nations is here to help”1
Flyers: “The Partnership of Nations is here to help” (2001) CNN.com. Available at: http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/18/ret.flyers/ [Accessed February 3, 2019]. ↩
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a spoon designed to encourage children to eat enough breakfast. It’s one of a number of whimsical inventions by artist Dominic Wilcox for breakfast behemoth Kellogg’s. Now, I realize it’s an art project, so the whole point is going to be more about getting people thinking than a solving nutritional problems, but let’s …
Reading Time: 10 minutes Food robots aren’t very good at their jobs. At least, general purpose bots that are supposed to replace cooks in kitchens aren’t very good at their jobs. They require laborious hand holding and gigantic engineering investments to perform the most basic tasks with any proficiency. Highly automated food factories can be pretty swish, but the …
Reading Time: 18 minutes “The seller of lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm. He came along the street of Green Town, Illinois, in the late cloudy October day, sneaking glances over his shoulder. Somewhere not so far back, vast lightnings stomped the earth. Somewhere, a storm like a great beast with terrible teeth could not be denied.” …