Rainbow pixels

Kollectiv, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8349-9318 and Kollectiv, G. (2018) Rainbow pixels. In: Pavoni, A., Mandic, D., Nirta, C. and Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (eds.) Taste. Law and the Senses, 1. University of Westminster Press, London, pp. 239-243. ISBN 9781911534327 doi: 10.16997/book21

Abstract/Summary

The essay is an analysis of the way social media affects the organisation and regulation of taste. Considering Veblen's theory of conspicuous consumption, the text and image suggest that the visual has overtaken the gustatory and olfactory in the judgment of food.

Item Type	Book or Report Section
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/81530
Identification Number/DOI	10.16997/book21
Refereed	No
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Art > Fine Art
Publisher	University of Westminster Press
Publisher Statement	Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the certainty of metaphysical categories begins to crumble. This second title in the ‘Law and the Senses’ series explores law using taste as a conceptual and ontological category able to unsettle legal certainties, and a promising tool whereby to investigate the materiality of law’s relation to the world. For what else is law’s reduction of the world into legal categories, if not law’s ingesting the world by tasting it, and emitting moral and legal judgements accordingly? Through various topics including coffee, wine, craft cider and Japanese knotweed, this volume explores the normativities that shape the way taste is felt and categorised, within and beyond subjective, phenomenological and human dimensions. The result is an original interdisciplinary volume – complete with seven speculative ‘recipes’ – dedicated to a rarely explored intersection, with contributions from artists, legal academics, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists.
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