Edible zombis: fresh fish and the industry of cosmetic corpses

• DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.13709
• Publication Date: 2022-03-18T05:14:23Z
• Authors: João Afonso Baptista; Monica Truninger
• Keywords: Fresco; Consumption

Abstract Doing research on fishery commodities in Portugal led us to an enigma: for a dead fish be fresco (fresh) it must alive. This paradox manifests at popular, commercial, and legal level. It denotes the interruption of difference between being alive commodity form. In Portugal, we suggest, commercialization peixe (fresh fish) is based production consumption edible ‘zombis’: seafood corpses technologically symbolically crafted as undead. An open concept, ‘edible zombis’ part experimental vocabulary that foregrounds productive agency undeadness, both biological economic complex. relates ordinary practice necromancy commodity‐based world. Edible zombis are fetishes fetishize their producers consumers, suspending them from capitalist system which they live.