tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396438339085657882.post7810876812226332871..comments2024-03-21T00:19:27.130-07:00Comments on Suicide Food: The Pink Pig CompanyBenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18365355509420961754noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5396438339085657882.post-2507714545174004472010-04-16T16:24:47.493-07:002010-04-16T16:24:47.493-07:00Someone pointed out that the odd thing about Bisso...Someone pointed out that the odd thing about Bisson's "They're Made of Meat" story is that the aliens simultaneously know what meat is (they speak familiarly of it as "meat," not as "a system of polar substances dissolved in water contained in bilayers of phospholipids interacting with polymerized amino acids" or any other more "basic" descriptions), yet they find it shocking that some form of intelligent life is actually composed of the stuff. Yet what is meat, if not the stuff of which organisms of varying degrees of intelligence are composed? Human materiality is treated as simultaneously familiar and shocking.Nordomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05462778715902299822noreply@blogger.com