By Pole Lee, Joseph Choi, and Ryan Sun Podcast Audio: Transcript: Introduction: Hello everyone, welcome to our Philosophy 285 Podcast. This is Joe Choi, and I am working with Pole Lee and Ryan Sun to answer an essential question: How do traditional metaphysical understandings of food influence both the aesthetic and cultural portrayal of Japanese…
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Food for the Gram
By Harrison Goldfein, Julia Laico, & Renee Zhang On October 6th, 2010 Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger invented Instagram, a mobile phone app that allows people to share pictures with other users. Primarily, the app is used to share personal updates (Lagorio-Chafkin). However, some people have created Instagram accounts solely to document food and their…
Understanding the Aesthetics of Food Porn in Today’s Media
By Cecilia Zhang, Lawrence Rowley, and Oliver Xu So… What is “Food Porn”? If we delve into history, we can find that this term was first coined by Rosalind Coward in her 1984 book Female Desire. However, what is more intriguing is, why was it coined in such a way? What are the implications of…