In the Supermarket
In the Supermarket
The chapter introduces the ideas of Bruno Latour in order to identify the shopping cart as what Latour would call a “nonhuman actant,” which shapes human behavior in crucial and active ways. Above all, the cart completes a circuit of nonhuman machines in the new system of industrial food flow, ensuring foods that are produced on an unprecedented scale keep moving and reach the private home far more quickly and on a greater scale than previously.
Keywords: Bruno Latour, food flow, industrial agriculture, car culture, globalization
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