Afterword

Mashed between Code and Craft: So Many Pictures of Food

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3924702
AutoresJohn Tresch (autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen38
Páginas305-320
Fecha de publicación2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOsiris (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287
EditorialUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/725185
OpenAlexW4383741385
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas33

This essay explores relations among algorithms, everyday experience, and contemporary systems of knowledge and production. It considers one kind of image as emblematic of late capitalism: online pictures of food, with particular attention paid to #avocadotoast. The essay traces such images’ implications and equivocations, indicating the technoscientific chains that produce both food and images. The reading thus operates at the level of code—an exercise of cultural decipherment—and of craft—a history of making and using. The creation and distribution of digital images is both a constitutive part and a (ripe) symbol of the material and semiotic ecosystems of algorithmic culture. These systems are characterized by globally distributed scenarios of consumption, predation, and metaconsumption

Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Philosophy