Oryx
Oryx and Crake: Atwood, Food and the Capitalocene
This is another too-long blog post. Sometimes, you just have to give a novel the space it demands. So...
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Food, culture and society
Special Issue Introduction: Representation of Diasporic Food Cultures
This is the introduction to a special issue I edited with food scholar Ana Grgic. The article Climate...
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The Tasty Future Festival
I spoke on the topic “Fiction and Food Futures” at the Tasty Future Festival on the 16th of April,...
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The Windup Girl and the World Food System
The publication of Paulo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl in 2009 marks an important stage in the...
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Food, culture and society
Climate Diaspora and Future Food Cultures
The first publication of the project is now online (Open Access). This is the article Climate Diaspora...
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(Beyond) junk food futures in Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Tochi Onyebuchi was born in the US to Nigerian immigrants. He is known for the young adult War Girls (2019)...
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Leave the World Behind and the limits of Weird
Rumaan Alam’s novel Leave the World Behind (2020) was well reviewed when it came out. It has also been...
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Food Privilege Deprivation Dining
As part of the project, I have organized sustainable dinners in collaboration with restaurants. The...
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Foodunfolded, Science Fiction and Cannibalism
Foodunfolded is funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) located in Leuven,...
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How is Godzilla about climate change and food?
Godzilla (or Gojira as the Japanese original calls this monster) is a cross-cultural franchise begun...
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How is climate fiction about food?
What does it mean for a book, a film or a game (or a piece of music, meme or painting) to be about food?...
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Becky Chamber’s The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Insect Protein and the Good Food Institute
Becky Chamber’s started out like many other up-and-coming science fiction/climate fiction authors by...
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What is Climate Fiction?
According to conventional understanding, climate fiction (sometimes abbreviated as...
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Food in Blade Runner 2049
At the beginning of Blade Runner 2049, a “replicant” or android named “K”, an employee of the LAPD, arrives...
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The Swimmers
The Swimmers
Marian Womack’s The Swimmers (2021) explores a future where climate change has become so severe that...
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Hail Mary and Future Food
In Andy Weir’s sci-fi novel Hail Mary (2021), a microscopic alien life form has begun to consume...
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Eating and Feeding in Mad Max 2 and Fury Road
George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is about water, fossil fuels, sand and bonkers action....
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The Dog Stars
Having Your Cake and Eating It: Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars
Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars (2012) was well received by critics and shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke...
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