Feminist Fermentation Reading Session
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Thursday April 4, 10:00-13:00
Constant Studio (temporary fermentation lab) @ Hacktiris, 6th floor
Paul Delvauxstraat 3, 1000 Bruxelles
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Download pdfs etc. here! https://cloud.constantvzw.org/s/nbJrLDyQe4fzpTz
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* Sebastian Abrahamsson and Filippo Bertoni (2014) ‘Compost Politics: Experimenting with Togetherness’ in Vermicomposting Environmental Humanities, vol. 4, pp. 125-148.

* Aimee Bahng (2017) 'Plasmodial Improprieties: Octavia E. Butler, Slime Molds, and Imagining a Femi-Queer Common' in Queer Feminist Science Studies Reader, University of Washington Press.
https://soundcloud.com/thehuntington/plasmodial-improprieties

* Madeline Chera 'Ideologies of Fermented' Foods in Indiana Food Review        
http://www.indianafoodreview.com/archives/issue-2-bits-and-morsels/ideologies-of-fermented-foods#_edn9

* Tom Dedeurwaerdere (2010) 'Self-governance and international regulation of the global microbal commons: introduction to the special issue on microbal commons' in International Journal of the Commons vol. 4 no.1 Feb pp. 390 - 403.

* Edouard Glissant (1997) Poetics of Relation, Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press.

* Marta Álvarez Guillén (2019) Fermentación y feminismo. Conversación con Lauren Fournier 
https://a-desk.org/magazine/fermentacion-y-feminismo-conversacion-con-lauren-fournier/

* Jack Halberstam (2013) “The Wild Beyond: With and For the Undercommons” Intro to The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. Minor Compositions, pp. 2-12.

* Donna Haraway (2007) 'Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and art science activisms for staying with the trouble' in eds. Tsing, Swanson, Gan, Bubandt : The Arts of Living on a Troubled Planet, University of Minnesota Press.

* Maya Hey and Alex Ketchum (2018)  'Fermentation as Agitation: Transforming how we live together' in Cuizine Volume 9, Issue2, Food, Feminism, and Fermentation https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1055215ar 

*Myra Hird (2009) Microontologies of Sex. The Origins of Sociable Life: Evolution After Science Studies, Palgrave Macmillan 

Sandor Ellix Katz (2015) Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Life-Culture Foods. White River Junction, Vermont:  Chelsea Green. 

* Aviv Kruglanski, Vahida Ramujkic, Moshe Robas (2012) Micro-Cultures fanzine 
http://bbva.irational.org/microcultures/

* Mazen Labban (2014) 'Deterritorializing Extraction: Bioaccumulation and the Planetary Mine' in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(3) pp. 560-576.
 https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/00045608.2014.892360

*Timothy Lenton and Bruno Latour (2016) 'Gaia 2.0 could humans add some level of self-awareness to Earth's self-regulation' in Science September vol 361 issue 6407.

Stephanie Maroney (2018) Sandor Katz and the Possibilities of a Queer Fermentive Praxis in Food, Feminism, and Fermentation, Vol 9, Issue 2.
https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1055217ar

* Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (2017) Matters of care, Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds, University of Minnesota Press.

* Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2012) On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales in Common Knowledge, Volume 18, Issue 3, Fall, pp. 505-524



N O T E S

eds Lauren Fournier (2017) Fermenting Feminism 
http://www.labae.org/publications/fermenting-feminism + https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/28709/

Donna Haraway (2008) When Species Meet [Ch. 12 Last bit]
Donna Haraway (2015) "Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationcene, Chthulucene : Making Kin" in Environmental Humanities, vol. 6, p.159 
“Of course, from the start the greatest planetary terraformers (and reformers) of all have been and still are bacteria and their kin”

Jamie Lorimer (2016) 'Rot' in Environmental Humanities 8 (2) pp. 235-239.
https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3664333 
"A bite, a chew, a swallow, and, after some acidic digestion, into me. From human to humus to human again through a humorous, rotten epiphany."

Heather Love (2016) 'Queer Messes' in Queer Methods. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, Volume 44, Numbers 3 & 4, Fall/Winter.

Ingram Mrill 'Fermentation, Rot, and Other Human-Microbial Performances' (In Knowing Nature: Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies)

Klingan, Katrin, Ashkan Sepahvand, Christoph Rosol, and Bernd M. Scherer (2015) Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain, Vapor, Ray. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
"Rather than simply a vertical extrapolation of bounded horizontal space, volumetric space is heterogeneous: it includes gaps, pockets, and multidirectional warrens of varying densities. The textured materiality of terrain compels us to apprehend environments as sets of interrelated phenomena, as hyperobjects (Morton 2013). Not only are soil, water, air, and ice intermeshed environments, they leak, seep into each other, coalesce, fissure, and clot. Volumetric space is also an entanglement of scales, from the planetary to the granular. “Seemingly insignificant ‘specks’ accumulate, taking shape from barely noticeable singularities to unavoidably complex entities... As discrete units that aggregate to immense numbers, they exhibit a continuous fluid medium of their own—viscous, gravitational, flowing, blowing—constantly composing, and recomposing itself, instigating morphological variation."

Karen Barad (2014) Diffracting Diffraction: Cutting Together-Apart in
"We might imagine re-turning as a multiplicity of processes, such as the kinds earthworms revel in while helping to make compost or otherwise being busy at work and at play: turning the soil over and over – ingesting and excreting it, tunnelling through it, burrowing, all means of aerating the soil, allowing oxygen in, opening it up and breathing new life into it. It might seem a bit odd to enlist an organic metaphor to talk about diffraction, an optical phenomenon that might seem lifeless. But diffraction is not only a lively affair, but one that troubles dichotomies, including some of the most sedimented and stabilized/stabilizing binaries, such as organic/inorganic and animate/inanimate."

Redzepi & Zilber Noma guide to fermentation
https://brut-wien.at/en/Programme/Calendar/Programm-2018/2018_12_Dezember_2018/2018-12-12-Lucie_Strecker_Applied_Microperformativity (microperformativity event in Brut)


stretching the topics but for me important:

eduard glissant "poetics of relation" (chapter baroque 77 and opacity 111)
fred moten stefano harney "undercommons"

From Ferran
https://www.the-scientist.com/the-literature/presence-of-bacterial-pathogen-blocks-arabidopsis-germination-65372?utm_content=85124155&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-18198832

I think Nausicaä from Miyazaki talks about fermentation and microorganisms and the transformations promoted by them, maybe interesting to introduce this subject to kids? ��