What does a bag of lettuce have to do with power, hegemony, truth, and the hidden structures that shape everyday life?
In this episode, we use Taco Bell, Temu fas/cists Argentina, and the recent Taylor Farms (guess we put alleged here now) lettuce recall and Cyclospora outbreak as a jumping-off point to explore a deeper question: How does power become invisible?
From the vaults of Law & Political Economy (LPE), Gramsci’s theory of hegemony, feminist urbanism, and political economy. In this episode we stroll through how global food systems depend on complex networks of labor, logistics, expertise, and trust that most of us rarely see and that is on purpose. Who bears risk and captures profit, and who gets to call the FDA a dirty liar, when looking at geography critically.
We discuss:
Gramsci and the manufacture of common sense
How hegemony shapes what we see—and what we don’t
The hidden labor behind modern food systems
Feminist critiques of invisibility, care work, and social reproduction
Feminist urbanism ideas of Doreen Massey and the fetish of the local
Supply chains, corporate power, and vulnerability
Truth, misinformation, and strategic omission
Why crises reveal the structures we normally ignore
A microscopic parasite is invisible just like the forces that organize our lives. This discourse explores how we are willfully blindfolded then pushed down a shaft and then blamed for it.
“What did I do?’”
Featuring discussions of: Antonio Gramsci, Dolores Hayden, Doreen Massey, Law & Political Economy, feminist urbanism, food systems, logistics, care work, and democratic accountability.
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