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Collapse; Philosophical Research and Development Issue #7; Culinary Materialism - Editorial Introduction
An editorial introduction that places culinary materialism alongside deeper questions of ingestion, matter, and inhuman process.
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Core idea
The page matters because ingestion is one of geotrauma's recurring figures for how the outside enters thought. Eating, digestion, and matter are treated as active philosophical problems.
Editorial framing connects disparate contributions into a materialist scene centered on incorporation, transformation, and earthly process.
That matters because it broadens geotrauma beyond geology narrowly understood and into a larger field of material transformation.
How to read this text
Read the framing statements for how they define materialism through process rather than doctrine.
Track the links between ingestion and outsideness. They quietly anchor the page in this section.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 27
Editorial Introduction Here we return to the theme of our previous vol ume; for it becomes clear that a culinary materialism opens up new vistas for geophilosophy. Nietzsche demanded that thought be 'true to the earth', extending the genealogical method so as to ground culture and thought in the stomach and on the terrain to which it is adapted (an aspiration satisfied in a different way by Wrangham's thesis).
Definition · paragraph 6
COLLAPSE VII narrative in every case. It is in this way that a culinary materialism can open up a continuous yet twisted (topologically counterintuitive) depth beneath the surface or the ground: by bringing out the non-trivial relations between the cosmic continuum and its local ized regions; by displaying relations between the earth and the regional horizons for thought that belong to it, and an unrestricted and unified conception of the universe.
Definition · paragraph 27
Culinary materialism sets against geophilosophy as the philosophy of or for the earth - a thought that is 'true-to-the-earth' - chemophilosophy as a universal philosophy - a thought whose topos is an earth that is 'true-to-the-universe' (that is, an earth syntheti cally envisioned within the full spectrum of the open continuum).
Mechanism · paragraph 27
Editorial Introduction Here we return to the theme of our previous vol ume; for it becomes clear that a culinary materialism opens up new vistas for geophilosophy.
History · paragraph 28
We can thus understand this vol ume on 'Culinary Materialism' not only in terms of a radicalisation of 'Geo/Philosophy' (COLLAPSE VI) but also as a continuation of the legacy of the 'Copernican Imperative' (COLLAPSE V) - that orbital subversion which also shatters the alchemical parental hegemony of sol and tuna over the earth.
Appears in sections
Geotrauma and the Outside Primary section
Molten earth, Barker, the inhuman Outside, and the archive's geological imagination.