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Paulina Olszanka

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Food Culture in Late Capitalism

Paulina Olszanka, Overland, December 2018

So charged is food now with our preoccupations, what we choose to put in our bodies can be read as a contemporary index for who we are and what we want...No longer just an elevated marker of class and aesthetics, in their offer of supreme salvation, these meals are the inversion of contemporary concerns with alienation, the Anthropocene, and the capitalist limitations of the body.

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