What Grows in Silicon Valley?
The Emerging Ideology of Food Technology
As the startup culture of Silicon Valley has shifted its sights beyond more traditionally “digital” realms of computing and the internet towards areas like food and food production, so too have the ideologies that constitute them begun to render these areas in their own terms. We explore this ideology and its implications by considering two specific cases — Soylent and Niwa.
This project resulted in a book chapter (co-written with Christopher Miles) which is part of an edited collection entitled The Ecopolitics of Consumption edited by Karyn Pilgrim, H. Louise Davis, and Madhu Sina.
