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"Key questions in food ethics-food aid, local diets, food labelling, sustainability and agricultural pollution-have been understood through a lens that takes production, processing and distribution to be general features of the industrial economy. Challenging these fundamental assumptions calls for an approach that goes beyond dietary advice. A deep inquiry into the nature of food and farming, and into the institutions that structure food purchases and environmental regulation shows how a place-based agrarian outlook reveals unappreciated philosophical complexity, opening to a more satisfactory ethos for contemporary food practices. At the same time, the promise of an alternative food ethic requires uncovering the way that traditional agrarian norms continue to be implicated in structural racism and oppression. Thompson's "agrarian pragmatism" counters mainstream applied ethics with a line of argument contrasting ethical inquiry with discourses of persuasion and social control. The book concludes with a study of how food ethics provides an entry into dialog between themes in environmental philosophy and the philosophy of race"--

"This book explains how the knowledge economy, a seeming wonder for the world, has caused unintended harms that threaten peace and prosperity and undo international cooperation and the international rule of law. It also points to ways out of these crises"--

Klappentext: "Dysphoria mundi" es un diario de la transición planetaria que toma la forma de un texto mutante, hecho de ensayo, filosofía, poesía y autoficción, que busca capturar las convulsiones del fin del capitalismo patriarco-colonial. Preciado describe en esta obra las modalidades de un presente revolucionario: no algo que sucedió en un pasado mítico o que sucederá en un futuro mesiánico, sino algo que nos está sucediendo. Nos encontramos frente a uno de los libros más ambiciosos que se han escrito durante la crisis del covid; un libro-mundo donde el autor recoge los cambios que se están produciendo en todos los ámbitos sociales, políticos, sexuales... La fascinante hipótesis que nos propone Preciado aquí consiste en generalizar la noción de disforia para entenderla no como una enfermedad mental, sino como un abismo epistémico y político: el que separa el antiguo régimen capitalista, patriarcal y colonial, que conduce inexorablemente a la extinción, de una nueva forma de vida que hasta ahora había sido descalificada como improductiva y anormal, y que ha acabado revelándose como la única salida posible. Explotando todos los límites disciplinarios y sus binarismos, Preciado se afirma aquí como uno de los filósofos internacionales más importantes del momento, y consigue entregar, como ha afirmado Judith Butler, una obra 'monumental': un libro imprescindible para entender el presente y más aún para adentrarse en el futuro

"Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to Antiquity. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalizing the study of veganism. Whereas occasional publications have recently emerged from sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, or critical animal studies, a comprehensive geographical analysis is missing. Until now. In fourteen chapters from a diverse group of scholars and living practitioners, Vegan Geographies looks across space and scale, exploring the appropriateness of vegan ethics among diverse social and cultural groups, and within the midst of broader neoliberal economic and political frameworks that seek to commodify and marketize the movement. Vegan Geographies fundamentally challenges outdated but still dominant human-nature dualisms that underpin widespread suffering and ecological degradation, providing practical and accessible pathways for people interested in challenging contemporary systems and working collectively toward less destructive worlds"--

This book, first published in 1985, analyses the factors that have shaped the militarization of space. By examining in great detail the determinants of U.S. policy, it explains why for over 25 years space did not become the scene of an arms race, and why this began to change in the late 1970s. Both superpowers did, however, develop a limited anti-satellite capability in the 1960s, and these programmes are also discussed.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Who Should Read this Book? -- The Overall Plan -- The Revised Edition -- Some Disclosures -- References -- Contents -- 1 Biotechnology in the Context of Agriculture and Food: An Overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Puzzle of Heredity -- 1.3 Altering the Genome -- 1.4 Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology -- 1.5 Recent Developments -- 1.6 What's in a Name? -- 1.7 The Controversy in Ethical Perspective -- 1.8 Conclusion: Beyond Risk and Back Again -- References -- 2 The Presumptive Case for Food Biotechnology -- 2.1 Technological Ethics: A Précis -- 2.2 Ethics and Risk -- 2.3 The Risk-Based Approach -- 2.4 The Logic of the Presumptive Case -- 2.5 The Social Dimension of the Presumptive Case -- 2.6 Making the Case for Biotechnology Badly -- 2.6.1 The Modernist Fallacy -- 2.6.2 The Naturalistic Fallacy -- 2.6.3 The Argument from Ignorance -- 2.6.4 The Argument from Hunger -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Biotechnology, Policy and the Problem of Unintended Consequences: The Case of rBST -- 3.1 What is rBST? Why Does it Matter? -- 3.2 Biotechnology Policy and Philosophy -- 3.3 rBGH: Assessing Unwanted Consequences -- 3.3.1 Food Safety -- 3.3.2 Animal Welfare -- 3.3.3 Environmental Impact -- 3.3.4 Social Consequences -- 3.4 Ethical Disputes, Governance and Consensus Politics -- 3.5 Social Consequences Redux -- 3.6 Learning from rBST -- References -- 4 Food Safety and the Ethics of Consent -- 4.1 The Ethics and Political Theory of Food Safety Regulation -- 4.2 Safety Criteria and Biotechnology -- 4.3 Ethical Gaps in Food Safety Governance -- 4.3.1 Bad Actors -- 4.3.2 Collateral Consequences -- 4.3.3 Social Uncertainty -- 4.4 The Philosophy of Food Safety -- 4.4.1 Classification -- 4.4.2 Purification -- 4.4.3 Optimization -- 4.5 Classification and Purification Versus Risk-Based Optimization.

Detestable and Wicked Arts -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: The Devil in New England -- 1. "Hanged for a Witch": Witch-Hunting in New England before 1670 -- 2. "Being Instigated by the Devil": The Crime of Witchcraft -- 3. "A Forward, Discontented Frame of Spirit": The New England Witch -- 4. "The More Women, the More Witches": Gender and Witchcraft -- 5. "There Was Some Mischief in It": The Social Context of Witchcraft -- 6. "Very Awful and Amazing": Witch Panics and the Bewitched -- 7. "According to God's Law": Witch- Hunting as a Judicial Process -- Conclusion: The Case of Ann Burt and Witch-Hunting in the English Atlantic -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.