- Birmingham
- Film Studies, Theatre Studies, Theatre History, Food, Phenomenology, Performativity, and 20 morePractice-As-Research, Food Media, Celebrity Chefs, Heston Blumenthal, Bad Science, Obesity, Drama, Education, Social Sciences, Literature, Space and Place, Phenomenology of the body, Phenomenology of Space and Place, Performance Studies, Restaurant, Philosophy, Embodied Cognition, Food and Performance, Theatre. History of Food, and Theatre and Foodedit
- Teaching Fellow in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham.
PhD from the University of Bristol entitled 'The Performativity of Food: An Exploration and Analysis of the Work of Heston Blumenthal'.edit
This article uses Heidegger’s notion of technology, as technē and logos, to explore how the everyday technologies of eating are always already grounded and framed. It uses the work of contemporary food artists, Bompas & Parr, and their... more
This article uses Heidegger’s notion of technology, as technē and logos, to explore how the everyday technologies of eating are always already grounded and framed. It uses the work of contemporary food artists, Bompas & Parr, and their project with Heinz, to explore the ways in which cutlery can be used as a technology of eating, to draw attention to the ways in which it is ideologically constructed, the ways it can reveal our everyday thinking and how it frames the food itself, providing a particular narrative of its production and consumption. The paper draws out how cutlery goes beyond a mere pragmatic understanding of utensils, as well as how the very notion of pragmatism is always already culturally and ideologically constructed.
