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16.04.2013

 FOOD DEMOCRACY / Rok za prijavu radova na MEMEFEST 2013 je 20. maj!

Vandana Shiva je indijska filozofkinja, ekološka aktivistica, ekofeministica i autorica koja nas sve može poučiti o odnosu kapitalizma do zemlje, hrane i semena. Njena maksima je seed & food democracy!

Pogledajte šta kaže o demokratiji hrane u predavanju sa nazivom: JUST FOOD!

Ove godine na Memefestovom festivalu čitamo The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply" (2000) - stariji tekst Vanda…

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12.04.2013

FOOD DEMOCRACY meme visuals

Here we go - the posters are cooked!

The ingredients for this year dish was:
- 2 kg of images with strong but at the same time open narration
- 6 pieces of vernacular typography normally used in small local groceries
- a pinch or two of supportive text
and an extra doze of imagination.

Here are the results.

Enjoy the meal/Dober tek/DObar tek/Buen apetito/Buon apetito/Gutten Ap…

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08.04.2013

A Fruit that Asked Questions

Food is a social medium. Michael Rakowitz explores in this beautiful project exactly this dimension. As a medium food can carry a story and it can raise questions. Food has symbolic meaning and it creates meaning in situations. It can serve as a tool for intervention and it can have explicit political connotations. It does create new relations and it can question established ones.

My friend A…

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06.04.2013

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05.04.2013

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05.04.2013

Obama garantiza imunidad para Monsanto / Obama grants inmunity for Monsanto

Numerosos medios alertan sobre la reciente aprobación de Barack Obama y el Senado a la ley HR 993, más conocida como la “Monsanto Protection Act” (Ley de protección de Monsanto), que le otorga a la corporación inmunidad a la hora de ser investigada.

Monsanto crece y lo hace a pasos agigantados. Ya vimos lo que está sucediendo en Sudamérica, pero ahora es el turno de Estados Unidos. La aprobaci…

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05.04.2013

Vandana Shiva | textos en español

http://www.rebelion.org/autores.php?id=43

el +reciente
18.09.2012 | El casino del sistema alimentario global
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=156250

Vandana Shiva para Common Dreams
Traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Germán Leyens

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05.04.2013

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03.04.2013

Urban Farming & FRESH (The most awesome supermarket in the world)

Hey all! For the Memefest2013 theme of Food Democrazy, I just wanted to share some really promising recent initiatives from Copenhagen, Denmark:

First of all there is FRESH (subtitled: The most awesome supermarket in the world)

FRESH presents itself as "a holistic concept that goes beyond the boundaries", offering the citizens of Copenhagen a living supermarket in the city. Instead of simp…

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03.04.2013

FAST FOOD in NEOLIBERALIZACIJA

(odlomek iz prihajajoče knjige o hrani)

Ali je mogoče invazijo instantne trash american materializirane ideologije v obliki fast fooda misliti kot del ameriške neoliberalne ekspanzivne politike; kot kontrarevolucionarni odgovor na svetovno kritiko amerikanizma in zahteve svetovne kulturne revolucije in antisistemskih gibanj konec 60. let?

Tezno vprašanje ni nedolžno, če vemo, da je proces…