Ecomodernism, cultured meat and the search for the 'Middle landscape'.
Leo Marx's seminal work, Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America, continues to offer invaluable insights into the evolving relationship between technology and nature, particularly in contemporary debates surrounding food production. This paper examines the relevance of Ma...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 267 - 289 |
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