tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post3430855637916366352..comments2023-11-03T08:02:25.369-04:00Comments on AmericanScience: A Team Blog: Do we still need harvest festivals?David Roth Singermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12841041983824755867noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-27883505215570937322011-11-23T14:59:53.891-05:002011-11-23T14:59:53.891-05:00This the comment I just left over at Anna's or...This the comment I just left over at Anna's original post:<br />"Anna: This is a terrific essay and it points to such a fascinating---if campy---moment. Imagining the can as an extension of the protective skins on all fruits is actually rather fascinating. The idea isn't necessarily that cycles will go away: they will just become soooo much longer! I don't know that the film-makers are thinking about this. But your post got me thinking about it. The can age and the nuclear age share this trait: they de-emphasize seasons and make other, longer cycles much more important to us and to the rest of the natural world.<br /><br />I noticed two other things this last time I watched "The Miracle of the Can." First: the film-makers implicitly argue that the canneries will displace women from the productive process. You can see them imagining a future where women no longer do farm labor. Hired men and machines will take their place.<br /><br />Second: the film-makers create a false past of plenty---of too much food always going to waste. That's fascinating because it is the industrialization of food, which the can participates in, that actually brings about that moment of plenty in mid-century America."Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05217832960135325575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1030220433025894048.post-17903056218607916152011-11-22T22:40:34.791-05:002011-11-22T22:40:34.791-05:00Hey thanks for the shout-out! I would love to read...Hey thanks for the shout-out! I would love to read any thoughts on my little essay that AmericanScience readers might have.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18445688693296690667noreply@blogger.com