TSES 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cultured Meat, Tses, Commodification

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Technology, Society, Environment Studies
• Course: TSES 3001
• Professor: John Buschek

Document Summary

Artificial meat videos (quorn, impossible meat, in vitro meat) Claim: if the product of a device is available then the product is said to be commodified. The process whereby something is moved into a market and made available for sale and purchase. If you think about commodification, there is something else going on. A practice is morally commodified when it is detached from contexts of engagement with a time, a place, or a community. Claim: contexts of engagement are valuable, when they disappear something is lost. Claim: in some cases the losses are outweighed by moral gains (equity, liberty, health ) Claim: economic and moral commodification largely overlap, but they do not coincide. Claim: commodification points to the full structure of technology. Commodified goods are detached from burdens of engagement. They can only be detached if something takes the place of the contexts of engagement. Want wine natural wine (variable) technological wine (consistent but detached from contexts of engagement)