Cornell’s Kate Manne says #Foodnoise is really food music
#Foodnoise has nearly 15 million views on TikTok. But Kate Manne, an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell and the author of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia, says thinking about food is a basic human drive.
“Coined to name the experience of thinking about food, longing for food, planning our next meal and so on, ‘food noise’ is a slick rebrand of some of the most basic human drives: hunger, appetite, craving. But now these are being framed as bugs, rather than features,” Kate says. “We should resist this reframing.”
She prefers to think of hunger, appetite, and craving as ‘food music,’ and she suggests we dance to it.
