Walking Archives: The Soy Children - Softcover

Molinari, Eduardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570272441 ISBN 13: 9781570272448

Publisher: Minor Compositions, 2012

Synopsis

Who are children of genetically modified soy production? What disowned bastards are produced

by the hybridization of agri-business, biotech, capital, and culture?
To answer these questions the Archivo Caminante (Walking Archive) embarks on a trip through

the opaque and strange world of genetically modified soya plants in Argentina in search of its

inhabitants, forms and structures, languages and narratives: the forces that swirl around the soya

rhizome. In the style of Gulliver's Travels it makes visible some of the routes in the soya chain

giving shape to a new international division of labor food policy in global semiocapitalism.
More than 50% of the cultivated lands in Argentina are for soya production, with 90% of that

area covered by Monsanto products and representatives. This agrarian system and its results

are only possible using Roundup herbicide, the brand name of Monsanto's glyphosate. The

rhizome formed by soya production dives deep into the Argentine society: it organizes new

political alliances, and, above all, modifies the social and cultural structure of the country. Is

there a transgenic culture inside semiocapitalism? Does the soyazation process modify culture

and society, or is it the other way around, and soyazation is only possible in a transgenic culture?

About this title

Review:

"Eduardo Molinari has produced a compelling document demonstrating that the process of
recombination can be wrenched from capital's oppressive grip, and put to use to expose and
critique its expansion from modern imperialism to a molecular invasion that establishes full
spectrum biocolonization. Juxtaposing fragments of political and cultural history, political theory,
mythology, and ecological study, in conjunction with personal memories and observations,
Molinari produces an associational web that yields a long-awaited radicalization of relational
aesthetics." - Critical Art Ensemble

About this edition

• Publisher: Minor Compositions
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1570272441
• ISBN 13: 9781570272448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72