The course will highlight how the new nature of nutrition in mass consumer society has strong points of similarity with the social and anthropological dynamics typical of the contemporary society. It will try to figure out through the various images and treatments provided, for example, by the literature and the cinema, what changes the production-consumption cycle of food has undergone. At the same time, the course will analyze the concepts of quality and sustainability, highlighting their heuristic character. At the end of the course the students will be able to develop a multidimensional reading of the complex issues revolving around the theme of food.

- Food as epistemic object;
- Ethics of food and food production;
- The concepts of quality and sustainability

M. Harris, Buono da mangiare, Torino, Einaudi, 2015
Jonathan C.K. Wells, Cibo, salute e libertà, Aboca Edizioni
Handouts will be given during the course.