Decentering Subjectivity in Everyday Eating and Drinking: Digesting Reality - Paperback

by Ali Lara (Author)

This book analyzes the configurations of reality as manifested in everyday practices of eating and drinking. The author uses examples from daily life related to eating and drinking habits like, 'eating tacos' or 'taking a shot of mezcal' to offer an interface of interaction between body and mind connecting all scales of reality.

Author Biography

Ali Lara received his PhD in social psychology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and was previously postdoctoral fellow at the City University of New York. He currently works as a lecturer in psychology at the University of East London. His research interests revolve around speculative philosophy-based theories such as affect and Object Oriented Ontology, social studies of the body and the senses, and decolonial theory.