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How to Become a Terran. Return to Earth as Geo-Gastro-Politics
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: Received: 30 March 2024 / Approved: 1 April 2024 / Online: 1 April 2024 (11:12:40 CEST)
How to cite: Lemke, H. How to Become a Terran. Return to Earth as Geo-Gastro-Politics. Preprints 2024, 2024040034. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0034.v1 Lemke, H. How to Become a Terran. Return to Earth as Geo-Gastro-Politics. Preprints 2024, 2024040034. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0034.v1
Abstract
This article argues that philosophy and its influential narrative should take and think "food" - the gastro-world - in order to radically renew itself and develop a gastrocentric view of the world and the future of humanity. It discusses first some of the basic ideas of a gastrocentric understanding of the world, second the adventure of becoming a Terran, and third the daily practice of what I will call "terra madre forming". It tells us this: If there is to be a future of human survival and well-being on Earth, if we are to achieve the goals of sustainable development, then we have a clear agenda for tomorrow with the re-humidification of the soil - madre terra - that nourishes us. What needs to be done is quite simple and down-to-earth: We, each of us, if possible, must participate in the regeneration of the earth. In conclusion, it is time for the Slow Food movement to blossom into a geo-gastro-activism. The future task of this organization is to make itself electable as a political party to support the much-needed transformation of humans into Terrans.
Keywords
gastroethics; gastrosophy; Slow Food movement; humification; the terrestrial party; everyday activism
Subject
Arts and Humanities, Philosophy
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