On Resurrected Nuggets and Sphincter Windows: Cultured Meat, Art, and the Discursive Subsumption of Nature

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 844-859

  Jönsson, Erik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Art; biotechnology; discourse; meat; representations; subsumption of nature

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; ART; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DESIGN; FOOD PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; MEAT;

EID: 85017186653     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2017.1304599     Document Type: Article

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