Thanks! I love your article!!

I aspire to grow the -opolis section, so would encourage all my friends to publish books with that suffix if they can

Love Schweblin and just got this a few days ago, I know it will be a treat! Couldn't get into the Ravn, though.

there used to be a record shop in Nottingham that I enjoyed going to as a student where it always felt like you needed to be alert to the possibility of objects falling from above, or finding humans/animals/other buried in the stacks. Perfect imo

Thanks! I would have assumed WWII rationing would be another relevant context. Seems to be discussion of that online too, though I haven't looked closely. Reminds me that Carol J Adams did an Object Lessons book about burgers a few years ago...

The only real solution is surely to remove all metaphors from the language we use to talk about food, it's the only way we can ensure consumers aren't being duped. I look forward to the meat industry campaign to ban toad in the hole and pigs in blankets

anyway, vegans for a real lexit now

Would love to hear from food historians about how long we've been using the word 'burger' for food made without meat products...I will look this up when I'm not supposed to be preparing for a seminar

I would have loved to have seen her making these arguments in front of literary studies scholars, but of course her work has no presence in that discipline, what with it pushing points no-one has taken seriously since 1967.

Sounds like we're moving in different philosophical circles! She wasn't very well-published for a prof. I gather the general impression is that she only gained wider attention in the discipline when she started shouting about her horrible views and how she was supposedly being cancelled for them.

idk, I always assumed her prof title came from having sucked up some awful admin role, but haven't scrutinised her career path closely - better things to do with my time! I know lots of philosophers and have a philosophy degree, and none of us would consider her work worth reading.