Editor
Simulacrum Magazine - June 2020 - 64 pages

'In 1928 the artist Tarsila do Amaral gifted an oil painting called Abaporu, which means "the man who eats people' in Tupi language. It inspired her husband, the poet Oswald de Andrade, to write the Manifesto Antropofago (Cannibalist Manifesto) in the same year. In the modernist 'Anthropophagic' movement, the figure of the cannibal symbolised the idea of intercultural digestion to resist the postcolonial hegemonic European influence. Food and eating practices are perhaps the ultimate examples of how political meaning can lurk in an everyday ritual. Because who cooks every day? Where does our food come from? And who will get a seat or place of honour at the table? Within an increasingly globalised yet atomised society, food can be used as a medium or lens to critically view the relation between humans and their community, ecology, or themselves. What can fermenting, brewing, baking, and eating teach us about how we relate to our environment? In the last issue of Simulacrum this year, we set our teeth into the issue of eating. Now with safe contactless delivery!'

Simulacrum is a magazine for arts and culture that serves as an accessible and high-quality publication platform for students and experts from the field. Four issues are published each year, each time with a specific theme. The subjects are always approached from different disciplines within the arts and cultural sciences, and placed in both historical and contemporary perspective.

Contributions by Martin Esseman, Rosa Marie Mulder, Maxime Garcia Diaz, Lisa Spooren, Elena Braida, Parel Strik, Tiffany Lai, Eli Witteman, Maya Reus, & Anael Jordan Ortiz.

Editor
Simulacrum Magazine - June 2020 - 64 pages

'In 1928 the artist Tarsila do Amaral gifted an oil painting called Abaporu, which means "the man who eats people' in Tupi language. It inspired her husband, the poet Oswald de Andrade, to write the Manifesto Antropofago (Cannibalist Manifesto) in the same year. In the modernist 'Anthropophagic' movement, the figure of the cannibal symbolised the idea of intercultural digestion to resist the postcolonial hegemonic European influence. Food and eating practices are perhaps the ultimate examples of how political meaning can lurk in an everyday ritual. Because who cooks every day? Where does our food come from? And who will get a seat or place of honour at the table? Within an increasingly globalised yet atomised society, food can be used as a medium or lens to critically view the relation between humans and their community, ecology, or themselves. What can fermenting, brewing, baking, and eating teach us about how we relate to our environment? In the last issue of Simulacrum this year, we set our teeth into the issue of eating. Now with safe contactless delivery!'

Simulacrum is a magazine for arts and culture that serves as an accessible and high-quality publication platform for students and experts from the field. Four issues are published each year, each time with a specific theme. The subjects are always approached from different disciplines within the arts and cultural sciences, and placed in both historical and contemporary perspective.

Contributions by Martin Esseman, Rosa Marie Mulder, Maxime Garcia Diaz, Lisa Spooren, Elena Braida, Parel Strik, Tiffany Lai, Eli Witteman, Maya Reus, & Anael Jordan Ortiz.