Foodporn. From Conviviality to Sharing

Abstract

We are used to talking and talking about food, anywhere and anyhow, while eating peculiar quantities of it in souplesse, both in excess or symmetrical insufficiency. Likewise, we are used to talking about pornography in unsuitable tones, ranging from the ashamed to the academic, which, in any case, hardly conceal ancestral pruderies that have never been kept under sufficient control. We do use pornography in contumacy, wherever humanly possible. It can be easily said that, by crossing these two practices, which are at the same time physical and discursive, through a pertinent Engelsian dialectic, a third one emerges. And that is – as should be clear at this point – foodporn.