Type: Journal Article
Identifier:
benjamin_fieldnotes| doi:
10.17351/ests2016.70 Search article via doi.orgDescription
Benjamin in the Postscript: 'Experimenting quite literally with a sociological imagination, this piece employs speculative methods through a series of field notes: the first describes a meeting I personally attended to kickstart the Human Genome Project-Write initiative in Boston, USA; the second depicts a hunger strike on a ship carrying human cargo in the Atlantic two centuries before; the third imagines a colony of excess humans whose passé relationship with food burdens the planet, two centuries later. Each note is necessarily partial, with multiple possible beginnings and endings.'