{"product_id":"cooking-memes","title":"Cooking Memes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCooking Memes\u003c\/em\u003e is an odd book about food by Alessandro Mininno and issued by Brescia-based Krisis Publishing who describe themselves as 'interested in the entanglement of theory, fiction, media and beliefs that invites us to see the world as it really is not'.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver almost 500 pages the author collects food memes from a surreal digital landscape where food is reduced to an image, a slogan, or a remix, and becomes a lens through which to observe the sociopolitical tensions running through culture, economics and power. Culinary meme culture, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAlessandro Mininno says, operates as an unruly semiotic system that cements stereotypes and subverts them, displays identities and dissolves them, and employs irony as an analytical tool. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePizza, carbonara, matcha, and vegan sushi appear not as neutral objects, but as focal points for class, gender, ethnicity, political affiliation and self-representation. This open archive gathers fragments without deference, suggesting that even the most unhinged food meme can serve as a historical document of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eKrisis Publishing, 486pp, 12cm x 19cm, illustrated paperback (English text but Italian copy on cover)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Public Knowledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490487509365,"sku":null,"price":24.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0079\/5974\/0505\/files\/CookingMemes.jpg?v=1786445881","url":"https:\/\/store.magalleria.co.uk\/products\/cooking-memes","provider":"Magalleria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}