DOI 10.60531/INSIGHTOUT.2023.1.5| TAVAKOLI: BUTTA LA PASTICHE!_ INSIGHTOUT 1(2023) 31Sahar Tavakoli:Butta la Pastiche! Camp Visions and National PalatesABSTRACTIn this paper, I draw from Science and Technology Studies(STS), Anthropology, and QueerTheory to show how Sociotechnical Imaginaries around national palates have, at times, takenon the sensibility of Camp – celebrating and naturalizing the artificial. Where existing work onboth Sociotechnical Imaginaries and Gastronationalism have focussed largely on the material output of sociotechnical systems, I draw attention to their emotional output, asking whataffects or modes are evoked when imagining food in relation to nation. Orienting the paperaround a stage performance, given in 2013 by butcher and Slow Food representative, DarioCecchini, titled‘Carne e Spirito’, I ask how efforts to recognise the variability and flexibility ofsmall scale industry can and have instead come to naturalize both nation and national body,lapidifying had hitherto been fluid. This begs a second, perhaps more pressing question: howdoes the camp mode of celebration potentially obscure a more insidious practice of regulatinga national body?CVSahar Tavakoli is a PhD candidate in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. Herresearch concerns the place of mundane technologies in broadly-defined disciplinary structures. That is, how everyday and often-overlooked objects participate in the transformation ofindividuals into populations upon which standardized practice can be applied. To date she haswritten on patient-worn hospital gowns, identification tags, gynecological models, dolls, andgeographically protected foods.KEYWORDSNation, Food, Camp, Geographically Indicated Foods, Food Production, SociotechnicalSystemsSahar Tavakoli,“Butta la Pastiche! Camp Visions and National Palates”, inSighout.Journal on Gender and Sexuality in STEM Collections and Cultures, 1(2023), 30–36,DOI: 10.60531/insightout.2023.1.5DOI: 10.60531/insightout.2023.1.5Published under license CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
