Hacia un enfoque alimentario de la muerte
Val Plumwood

In this posthumously published text titled Tasteless: Towards a Food-Based Approach to Death, in Environmental Values Vol. 17, Val Plumwood (1930-2008) —an Australian philosopher and ecofeminist known for her critique of anthropocentrism —reflects on two personal encounters with death: being preyed upon by a crocodile and burying her son in a rural cemetery amidst a thriving plant community.

The author challenges the exceptionalism that separates the human from nature, reflected in the choice between two conceptions of death: one of continuity in the spiritual realm and the other a reductionist materialism where death marks the end of one's story.

«Both perspectives dislocate the foundation of animal existence: that we all are food, and through death, we nourish others. Plumwood's approach advocates for an animistic materialism in which life is conceived as a circulation process where funeral practices can assert that death is an opportunity for life for others in the ecological community.»

Published by Taller de Ediciones Económicas
Translated by Nicolás Pradilla
187 x 120 mm
20 pages
2023
Stapled
Spanish