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The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can't Hack the Future of Food

By Julie Guthman

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2024
ISBN
0520402685, 0520402669, 0520402677, 9780520402669, 9780520402676, 9780520402683
DOI
10.1525/9780520402683
ASIN
B0CZTBJJL3
LCC
S494.5.I5.G87 2024
Open Library ID
OL51439179M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2233932 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
272\272
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-11-16 05:58:43

Description

A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. Why has Silicon Valley become the model for addressing today's myriad social and ecological crises? With this book, Julie Guthman digs into the impoverished solutions for food and agriculture currently emerging from Silicon Valley, urging us to stop trying to fix our broken food system through finite capitalistic solutions and technological moonshots that do next to nothing to actualize a more just and sustainable system. The Problem with Solutions combines an analysis of the rise of tech company solution culture with findings from actual research on the sector's ill-informed attempts to address the problems of food and agriculture. As this seductive approach continues to infiltrate universities and academia, Guthman challenges us to reject apolitical and self-gratifying techno-solutions and develop the capacity and willingness to respond to the root causes of these crises. Solutions, she argues, are a product of our current condition, not an answer to it.

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