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Being Japonaise: Understanding the Authentic Implications of Fusion Cuisine
Full text linkThe transition from cooking to culinary art is one of the manifold manifestations of the specializations of a society and its foray into the perfection of the physical representation of general ideology. Cooking is born out of necessity, whereas cuisine is the result of gastronomic experimentation and time-honored tradition. Food is as representative of collective identity and ideology as any other art form that a civilization produces and it is just as dynamic as the society that creates it. National cuisines often evoke images of well-known landmarks, providing an easy (and often oversimplified) method of identification. Even if individuals are unaware of the culinary traditions and praxis of a culture, they can still claim that they know that spaghetti is Italian or that sushi is Japanese, using this identification as a basis upon which to understand a complex culture. Fusion cuisine represents a more complex method of identification. The consumer has a more difficult time discerning the various parts of the dish and ascribing them to a particular culture. Fusion occupies the in-between of national identification; it belies the simplified culinary traditions that we have cataloged, forcing us to question our previously held notions of authenticity. Purveyors of fusion cuisine explore an indefinite territory of the reflected self and the other, navigating and negating patriotic pride to instead focus upon their understanding of postnational flavors rather than nationalistic meals. Fusion cuisine thus embodies an acceptance of the indefinite and constantly evolving nature of the transition from cooking to a cuisine of becoming
The Great Refusal: Liberation from the Facts of Life
Full text linkFollowing the rise of fascism in the mid-20th century, the Frankfurt School began developing theories to explain how individuals become susceptible to authoritative domination. Herbert Marcuse provided the New Left with a “Great Refusal” of the status quo. This concept first found meaningful expression during the 1968 May events in Paris. The Great Refusal has since been absorbed by the technological administration of false needs and the rational instrumentalization of culture. New media such as the popular Internet forum Reddit has the double function of entertainment and communication, thereby ensnaring the individual in the passive consent and enjoyment of self-domination. Cultural form develops habits of thought that tend toward conformity and powerful assumptions about ultimacy. Science and technology could be used to develop solutions to global problems, but instead we are enframed in a modality of life that produces material and ideological waste to satisfy the false needs created by the established culture. The liberation of consciousness is therefore dependent on the liberation of science and technology. The 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement demonstrates that technology can be harnessed to cultivate new values that aim to liberate consciousness. The Great Refusal has become the negation of the material and ideological conditions that confirm objective reality —a refusal to be subordinate to a world of facts
Surdeterminazione, egemonia e storia: il Gramsci “althusseriano” di Juan Carlos Portantiero (“Los usos de Gramsci”)1
Full text linkThe Whitetail Damselfish (Family Pomacentridae), Stegastes leucorus (Gilbert, 1892), new to California Marine Waters with a Key to the California Species of Pomacentridae
Full text linkWe report here on the first documented occurrences of the whitetail damselfish, Stegastes leucorus (Gilbert, 1892), from California and adjacent marine waters. In addition, we provide a list of the damselfishes (Pomacentridae) known from these waters and provide a key to these species
