HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: A Public Space, Schnapps, Caffeine
11 Sep 2018
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Coffee origins: although originally grown in ethiopia, first accounts of psychoactive properties from. The dancing goats : muslims eagerly adopted coffee-helped during ramadan. Substituted in place of alcohol as social drug. Caffeine represents security and safety: intoxicating without risk, pleasure without danger. People could shed communal identities and responsibilities. A public space independent of church, separate from family: caffeine bridges the gap between the private and the public involves bringing the private into the public via discussion. Increases labour capacities, extends workday to 24 hours, prevents accidents. Social ceremony: having a coffee as short land. As a declaration of lifestyle: it builds an identity: schnapps: emblematic of the modern individuals striving for hyper productivity and appetite for hyper stimulation, where is caffeine consumed- coffee houses, factories, fancy dinners, funerals, hospitals, everywhere. 25 million coffee farmers, in the world, the majority of whom earn perhaps a day: ethical consumption: as solution to way to assuage guilt of late stage capitalism.
