Food
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The Intellectual Assault Course
In his introduction to The Fashion System Barthes asks ‘Can clothing signify without recourse to the speech which describes it,…
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How Proteins Harm and Heal
Protein is the quintessential nutrient that every cell in the human body requires for growth or repair. The antibodies that…
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Fashion and Art
It is significant that the 1999 exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, ‘Addressing the Century’, took as its theme, not the…
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How Vitamins and Minerals Harm and Heal
Google “vitamins” and you’ll get 142 million results. That’s more than what you get for “Brad Pitt,” but the descriptions…
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Glamour and Modernity
In this chapter, we have shown that glamour is integral to capitalist modernity. It emerged at a specific point in…
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How Antioxidants and Other Phytochemicals Heal
If you pay any attention to health news, you’ve no doubt heard about the miraculous healing powers of antioxidants, polyphenols,…
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THE REAL DEAL ON FOOD SAFETY
Every year, millions of people across North America are sickened by food-borne illnesses (commonly called food poisoning). These lead to…
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Fashion and Signification
The deconstruction of image or product as text lies at the heart of any totalizing definition of a cultural studies…
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Antipathy, Thinly Veiled and Undisguised Hostility
The reading list for first-year students of fashion design at Kingston University includes The Fashioned Self by the anthropologist and…
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