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The empire remains shop
- Title
- The empire remains shop / Cooking Sections.
- Author
- Cooking Sections (Group)
- Publication
- New York, NY : Columbia University, [2018]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N6797.C657 A64 2018 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 272 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
- Summary
- Empire shops" were first developed in London in the 1920s to teach the British to consume foodstuffs from the colonies and overseas territories. Although none of the stores ever opened, they were intended to make previously unfamiliar produce and products-sultanas from Australia, oranges from Palestine, cloves from Zanzibar, and rum from Jamaica-available in the British Isles. The Empire Remains Shop speculates on the possibility and implications of selling back the remains of the British Empire in London today. Based on a public installation in London in the fall of 2016, the book catalogues and develops the installation's critical program of discussions, performances, dinners, installations, and screenings hosted at 91-93 Baker Street. The pieces in this book use food to trace new geographies across the present and future of our postcolonial planet. Structured as a franchise agreement, The Empire Remains Shop lays out some of the landscapes, imaginaries, economies, and aesthetics that future iterations of the shop would need to address in order to think through political counterstructures for a better distributed, hyper-globalized world.
- Series Statement
- Columbia books on architecture and the city
- Uniform Title
- Columbia books on architecture and the city.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Foreword / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Unamarketing the board -- The forest does not employ me anymore / with Forager Collective -- Banning taste : boycotts, identity, and resistance / Elisabetta Brighi -- Laleh Khalili, Nitasha Kaul, and Daniel Conway -- Bananormativity, transplants, and the genetically eroded -- Sugar, slaves, and sodomites / Ritchie Maitland -- Synthetic blood on leopard skin / Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balem -- Speculations on disappearance -- Carbolonialism : the financialization of forests / Harry Keene -- Commercial extinction : the exhaustion of exhaustion / FRAUD -- Climavore : under the sea there is a hole -- Buy the rumor, sell the news / Asunción Molinos -- Tilling rab lands in a post-plantation economy : a conversation on Caribbean soil / with Annalee Davis -- The "next 'invasive' is 'native'" : a performance lecture for two voices -- Devaluing property real estate agency -- What spatters and stains / Jesse Connuck -- Today we are green -- Fugitive remains : soil, celluloid, and resistant collectivities / Ros Gray, Shela Sheikh, and Nicole Wolf, with Filipa César, Bouba Touré, and Raphaël Grisey -- Midnight masala : border-fluid toilet cruising / with a performance by Shahmen Suku/Radha La Bia -- An old world in a former new world -- Franchise the empire remains shop.
- ISBN
- 9781941332375
- 1941332374
- LCCN
- 2018000866
- 99990317333
- OCLC
- on1019844949
- 1019844949
- SCSB-14253098
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries