{"id":18281,"date":"2026-08-26T15:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=18281"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:50:25","slug":"collapse-7-e-book","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/product\/collapse-7-e-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Collapse vol. 7 E-Book"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ePub version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/book\/collapse-7\/\">Collapse vol. 7: Culinary Materialism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTORS: Iain Hamilton Grant, John Gerrard, Michael A. Morris, FIELDCLUB, Rick Dolphijn, Manabrata Guha, Carol Goodden, Gordon Matta-Clark, AO&#038;, John Cochran, Richard Wrangham, Vanina Leschziner, Andrew Dakin, Sean A. Day, Jeremy Millar, Dan Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Eugene Thacker, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Doroth\u00e9e Legrand, Gabriel Catren, Fernando Zalamea<\/p>\n<p>Cookery has never been so high on the agenda of Western popular culture. And yet the endlessly-multiplying TV shows, the obsessive interest in the provenance of ingredients, and the celebration of \u2018radical\u2019 experiments in gastronomy, tell us little about the nature of the culinary. Is it possible to maintain that cookery has a philosophical pertinence without merely appending philosophy to our burgeoning gastroculture? How might the everyday sense of the culinary be expanded into a philosophy of \u2018culinary materialism\u2019 wherein synthesis, experimentation, and operations of mixing and blending take precedence over analysis, subtraction and axiomatisation?<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on resources ranging from anthropology to chemistry, from hermetic alchemy to contemporary mathematics, Collapse VII: Culinary Materialism undertakes a trans-modal experiment in culinary thinking. A wide range of contributors including philosophers, chefs, artists, historians, and synaesthetes examine the cultural, industrial, physiological, alchemical and even cosmic dimensions of cookery, and propose new models of culinary thought for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18286,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1603],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-18281","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-ebooks","first","instock","downloadable","virtual","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/18281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=18281"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=18281"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanomic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=18281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}