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In an era of climate catastrophe and corporate agribusiness, meat
has been decisively made over. Urbanites across the West are called
upon to look at the animals we eat, and by looking, learn to treat
them with love. We are asked to tenderise our carnal desire for
flesh and dignify our relationship with the land. Yet can our
appetite for meat be redeemed by this new way of seeing? Can an
'ethical' approach to the farming, sale, and consumption of meat
really save both the planet and our souls? Revisiting John Berger's
writings on animals and class, Meat Love restores a materialist
lens to the politics of carnivorous desire. In this vital essay,
Amber Husain deconstructs the beauty, tragedy, and mystery with
which our images of meat are embellished, drawing on a range of
visual sources from contemporary art and film to Instagram and
advertising. Probing the nature of 'love' in contemporary
human-animal relations, it casts a critical eye on the visual
culture of meat as it gentrifies and mutates, informing, for better
or for worse, who we become as political subjects.
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Replace Me (Paperback)
Amber Husain
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In this wide-ranging and intellectually lively essay, Amber Husain
asks if our obsession with replacement is the very thing that is
keeping the world in stasis. And, if so, with what might we replace
our obsession with replacement? With references spanning the
avant-garde art tec--futurism, and Effective Altruism, and taking
in writers from Aristotle to Anne Boyer, Replace Me is a
celebration of the possibilities for political transformation
inherent in the act of embracing one's own replaceability.
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