Tue September 18, 2018
Nicola Twilley at The Interval: Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere
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The Interval presents: Nicola Twilley - Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere
The network of thermal control that we have built over the past century has remade our relationship with food, for better and, in some ways, for worse. The invisible backbone of our food system is a man-made, distributed, and perpetual winter of mechanical refrigeration that we've built for our food to live in. Can we assure that its many benefits outweigh the enormous costs?Nicola Twilley has spent years researching the composition, scope, and impact of the twenty-first century’s global thermal control system, including collaborations with The Center for Land Use Interpretation and a fellowship in Michael Pollan’s Food and Farming Journalism program at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her book on refrigeration, from which this talk is drawn, is due out in 02019 from Penguin Press.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm
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Nicola Twilley is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine and co-hosts the podcast Gastropod. Her book on refrigeration, from which this talk is drawn, is due out in 02019 from Penguin. She blogs at EdibleGeography.com. She is also working on a book about quarantine.
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The network of thermal control that we have built over the past century has remade our relationship with food, for better and, in some ways, for worse. The invisible backbone of our food system is a man-made, distributed, and perpetual winter of mechanical refrigeration that we've built for our food to live in. Can we assure that its many benefits outweigh the enormous costs?Nicola Twilley has spent years researching the composition, scope, and impact of the twenty-first century’s global thermal control system, including collaborations with The Center for Land Use Interpretation and a fellowship in Michael Pollan’s Food and Farming Journalism program at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her book on refrigeration, from which this talk is drawn, is due out in 02019 from Penguin Press.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm
at The Interval at Long Now
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
Nicola Twilley is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine and co-hosts the podcast Gastropod. Her book on refrigeration, from which this talk is drawn, is due out in 02019 from Penguin. She blogs at EdibleGeography.com. She is also working on a book about quarantine.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today
The Interval presents: Nicola Twilley - Exploring the Artificial Cryosphere
The network of thermal control that we have built over the past century has remade our relationship with food, for better and, in some ways, for worse. The invisible backbone of our food system is a man-made, distributed, and perpetual winter of mechanical refrigeration that we've built for our food to live in. Can we assure that its many benefits outweigh the enormous costs?Nicola Twilley has spent years researching the composition, scope, and impact of the twenty-first century’s global thermal control system, including collaborations with The Center for Land Use Interpretation and a fellowship in Michael Pollan’s Food and Farming Journalism program at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her book on refrigeration, from which this talk is drawn, is due out in 02019 from Penguin Press.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm
at The Interval at Long Now
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
Nicola Twilley is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine and co-hosts the podcast Gastropod. Her book on refrigeration, from which this talk is drawn, is due out in 02019 from Penguin. She blogs at EdibleGeography.com. She is also working on a book about quarantine.
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The network of thermal control that we have built over the past century has remade our relationship with food, for better and, in some ways, for worse. The invisible backbone of our food system is a man-made, distributed, and perpetual winter of mechanical refrigeration that we've built for our food to live in. Can we assure that its many benefits outweigh the enormous costs?Nicola Twilley has spent years researching the composition, scope, and impact of the twenty-first century’s global thermal control system, including collaborations with The Center for Land Use Interpretation and a fellowship in Michael Pollan’s Food and Farming Journalism program at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Her book on refrigeration, from which this talk is drawn, is due out in 02019 from Penguin Press.
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts at 7:30pm
at The Interval at Long Now
Join Long Now to support our programming and get access to livestream video of our talks.
Nicola Twilley is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine and co-hosts the podcast Gastropod. Her book on refrigeration, from which this talk is drawn, is due out in 02019 from Penguin. She blogs at EdibleGeography.com. She is also working on a book about quarantine.
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