On the subjective, and collective, nature of food
Food, in its production and consumption, is personal but also contextual: bound by the various social/cultural norms, economic considerations, personal preferences, and historical backdrops that flavor every single thing we eat (as Alexis Nikole Nelson says, “everything you eat has a story that you’re the final chapter of.”)
The same is true of the information we produce and consume: each magazine article, newsletter post, meme, etc. is both personal and contextual. Oftentimes we describe these contexts as categories, such as these classifications for data/information/knowledge/wisdom, or our personal and social contexts from the theory of Information Worlds.
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