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By Semantica x Atractor
The political struggles waged in Latin America around the issues of food sovereignty, deforestation and the preservation of biodiversity have the multidimensional problem of monocultures as one of their focal points of dispute. Soy is, among other things, essential for livestock feed and the meat industry. For some time now, soy monocultures have been threatened by the amaranth plant. Such is the hypnotic force that soy has on amaranth that industrialists are devoting a large part of their capital to developing technology to uncouple and neutralize the spell between the two species. The corporate solution against amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmieri) however, has not only been able to resist Monsanto’s Roundup ready efforts, but has also evolved resistance to many of the most common weed killers.
Amaranth, before being categorised a parasite, was a plant that occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples. Known as “love-lies-bleeding,” amaranth comprises roughly 60 species in the genus Amaranthus. The word “amaranth” derives from the Greek ‘amarantos’, meaning “unwithered” or “never waxing old,” which reveals the ancient Greeks’ belief that the plant symbolised immortality. Like the Greeks, Amerindians also regarded amaranth as a symbol of immortality. The Aztecs mixed amaranth seeds with honey or blood, forming them into images of gods and then consuming them. The Spanish viewed the ritual as barbaric and banned the cultivation and consumption of amaranth, executing those who violated this law. The Spanish succeeded in reducing amaranth to a minor crop grown in the outposts of the empire, where it resisted extermination and continued through the centuries to serve as a staple food for many indigenous peoples such as the Chibchas, the Inca, the Tarahumora of Mexico, and the Hopi and Tohono O’odham of Arizona in the United States.
Semantica's project with Atractor, A Tale of Two Seeds, and winner of the Golden Nica prix at Ars Electronica, highlights the fragile future of amaranth, exhibiting this September at the festival in Linz, Austria.
The political struggles waged in Latin America around the issues of food sovereignty, deforestation and the preservation of biodiversity have the multidimensional problem of monocultures as one of their focal points of dispute. Soy is, among other things, essential for livestock feed and the meat industry. For some time now, soy monocultures have been threatened by the amaranth plant. Such is the hypnotic force that soy has on amaranth that industrialists are devoting a large part of their capital to developing technology to uncouple and neutralize the spell between the two species. The corporate solution against amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmieri) however, has not only been able to resist Monsanto’s Roundup ready efforts, but has also evolved resistance to many of the most common weed killers.
Amaranth, before being categorised a parasite, was a plant that occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples. Known as “love-lies-bleeding,” amaranth comprises roughly 60 species in the genus Amaranthus. The word “amaranth” derives from the Greek ‘amarantos’, meaning “unwithered” or “never waxing old,” which reveals the ancient Greeks’ belief that the plant symbolised immortality. Like the Greeks, Amerindians also regarded amaranth as a symbol of immortality. The Aztecs mixed amaranth seeds with honey or blood, forming them into images of gods and then consuming them. The Spanish viewed the ritual as barbaric and banned the cultivation and consumption of amaranth, executing those who violated this law. The Spanish succeeded in reducing amaranth to a minor crop grown in the outposts of the empire, where it resisted extermination and continued through the centuries to serve as a staple food for many indigenous peoples such as the Chibchas, the Inca, the Tarahumora of Mexico, and the Hopi and Tohono O’odham of Arizona in the United States.
Semantica's project with Atractor, A Tale of Two Seeds, and winner of the Golden Nica prix at Ars Electronica, highlights the fragile future of amaranth, exhibiting this September at the festival in Linz, Austria.
By Semantica x Atractor
The political struggles waged in Latin America around the issues of food sovereignty, deforestation and the preservation of biodiversity have the multidimensional problem of monocultures as one of their focal points of dispute. Soy is, among other things, essential for livestock feed and the meat industry. For some time now, soy monocultures have been threatened by the amaranth plant. Such is the hypnotic force that soy has on amaranth that industrialists are devoting a large part of their capital to developing technology to uncouple and neutralize the spell between the two species. The corporate solution against amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmieri) however, has not only been able to resist Monsanto’s Roundup ready efforts, but has also evolved resistance to many of the most common weed killers.
Amaranth, before being categorised a parasite, was a plant that occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples. Known as “love-lies-bleeding,” amaranth comprises roughly 60 species in the genus Amaranthus. The word “amaranth” derives from the Greek ‘amarantos’, meaning “unwithered” or “never waxing old,” which reveals the ancient Greeks’ belief that the plant symbolised immortality. Like the Greeks, Amerindians also regarded amaranth as a symbol of immortality. The Aztecs mixed amaranth seeds with honey or blood, forming them into images of gods and then consuming them. The Spanish viewed the ritual as barbaric and banned the cultivation and consumption of amaranth, executing those who violated this law. The Spanish succeeded in reducing amaranth to a minor crop grown in the outposts of the empire, where it resisted extermination and continued through the centuries to serve as a staple food for many indigenous peoples such as the Chibchas, the Inca, the Tarahumora of Mexico, and the Hopi and Tohono O’odham of Arizona in the United States.
Semantica's project with Atractor, A Tale of Two Seeds, and winner of the Golden Nica prix at Ars Electronica, highlights the fragile future of amaranth, exhibiting this September at the festival in Linz, Austria.
The political struggles waged in Latin America around the issues of food sovereignty, deforestation and the preservation of biodiversity have the multidimensional problem of monocultures as one of their focal points of dispute. Soy is, among other things, essential for livestock feed and the meat industry. For some time now, soy monocultures have been threatened by the amaranth plant. Such is the hypnotic force that soy has on amaranth that industrialists are devoting a large part of their capital to developing technology to uncouple and neutralize the spell between the two species. The corporate solution against amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmieri) however, has not only been able to resist Monsanto’s Roundup ready efforts, but has also evolved resistance to many of the most common weed killers.
Amaranth, before being categorised a parasite, was a plant that occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples. Known as “love-lies-bleeding,” amaranth comprises roughly 60 species in the genus Amaranthus. The word “amaranth” derives from the Greek ‘amarantos’, meaning “unwithered” or “never waxing old,” which reveals the ancient Greeks’ belief that the plant symbolised immortality. Like the Greeks, Amerindians also regarded amaranth as a symbol of immortality. The Aztecs mixed amaranth seeds with honey or blood, forming them into images of gods and then consuming them. The Spanish viewed the ritual as barbaric and banned the cultivation and consumption of amaranth, executing those who violated this law. The Spanish succeeded in reducing amaranth to a minor crop grown in the outposts of the empire, where it resisted extermination and continued through the centuries to serve as a staple food for many indigenous peoples such as the Chibchas, the Inca, the Tarahumora of Mexico, and the Hopi and Tohono O’odham of Arizona in the United States.
Semantica's project with Atractor, A Tale of Two Seeds, and winner of the Golden Nica prix at Ars Electronica, highlights the fragile future of amaranth, exhibiting this September at the festival in Linz, Austria.
By Semantica x Atractor
The political struggles waged in Latin America around the issues of food sovereignty, deforestation and the preservation of biodiversity have the multidimensional problem of monocultures as one of their focal points of dispute. Soy is, among other things, essential for livestock feed and the meat industry. For some time now, soy monocultures have been threatened by the amaranth plant. Such is the hypnotic force that soy has on amaranth that industrialists are devoting a large part of their capital to developing technology to uncouple and neutralize the spell between the two species. The corporate solution against amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmieri) however, has not only been able to resist Monsanto’s Roundup ready efforts, but has also evolved resistance to many of the most common weed killers.
Amaranth, before being categorised a parasite, was a plant that occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples. Known as “love-lies-bleeding,” amaranth comprises roughly 60 species in the genus Amaranthus. The word “amaranth” derives from the Greek ‘amarantos’, meaning “unwithered” or “never waxing old,” which reveals the ancient Greeks’ belief that the plant symbolised immortality. Like the Greeks, Amerindians also regarded amaranth as a symbol of immortality. The Aztecs mixed amaranth seeds with honey or blood, forming them into images of gods and then consuming them. The Spanish viewed the ritual as barbaric and banned the cultivation and consumption of amaranth, executing those who violated this law. The Spanish succeeded in reducing amaranth to a minor crop grown in the outposts of the empire, where it resisted extermination and continued through the centuries to serve as a staple food for many indigenous peoples such as the Chibchas, the Inca, the Tarahumora of Mexico, and the Hopi and Tohono O’odham of Arizona in the United States.
Semantica's project with Atractor, A Tale of Two Seeds, and winner of the Golden Nica prix at Ars Electronica, highlights the fragile future of amaranth, exhibiting this September at the festival in Linz, Austria.
The political struggles waged in Latin America around the issues of food sovereignty, deforestation and the preservation of biodiversity have the multidimensional problem of monocultures as one of their focal points of dispute. Soy is, among other things, essential for livestock feed and the meat industry. For some time now, soy monocultures have been threatened by the amaranth plant. Such is the hypnotic force that soy has on amaranth that industrialists are devoting a large part of their capital to developing technology to uncouple and neutralize the spell between the two species. The corporate solution against amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmieri) however, has not only been able to resist Monsanto’s Roundup ready efforts, but has also evolved resistance to many of the most common weed killers.
Amaranth, before being categorised a parasite, was a plant that occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples. Known as “love-lies-bleeding,” amaranth comprises roughly 60 species in the genus Amaranthus. The word “amaranth” derives from the Greek ‘amarantos’, meaning “unwithered” or “never waxing old,” which reveals the ancient Greeks’ belief that the plant symbolised immortality. Like the Greeks, Amerindians also regarded amaranth as a symbol of immortality. The Aztecs mixed amaranth seeds with honey or blood, forming them into images of gods and then consuming them. The Spanish viewed the ritual as barbaric and banned the cultivation and consumption of amaranth, executing those who violated this law. The Spanish succeeded in reducing amaranth to a minor crop grown in the outposts of the empire, where it resisted extermination and continued through the centuries to serve as a staple food for many indigenous peoples such as the Chibchas, the Inca, the Tarahumora of Mexico, and the Hopi and Tohono O’odham of Arizona in the United States.
Semantica's project with Atractor, A Tale of Two Seeds, and winner of the Golden Nica prix at Ars Electronica, highlights the fragile future of amaranth, exhibiting this September at the festival in Linz, Austria.
By Semantica x Atractor
The political struggles waged in Latin America around the issues of food sovereignty, deforestation and the preservation of biodiversity have the multidimensional problem of monocultures as one of their focal points of dispute. Soy is, among other things, essential for livestock feed and the meat industry. For some time now, soy monocultures have been threatened by the amaranth plant. Such is the hypnotic force that soy has on amaranth that industrialists are devoting a large part of their capital to developing technology to uncouple and neutralize the spell between the two species. The corporate solution against amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmieri) however, has not only been able to resist Monsanto’s Roundup ready efforts, but has also evolved resistance to many of the most common weed killers.
Amaranth, before being categorised a parasite, was a plant that occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples. Known as “love-lies-bleeding,” amaranth comprises roughly 60 species in the genus Amaranthus. The word “amaranth” derives from the Greek ‘amarantos’, meaning “unwithered” or “never waxing old,” which reveals the ancient Greeks’ belief that the plant symbolised immortality. Like the Greeks, Amerindians also regarded amaranth as a symbol of immortality. The Aztecs mixed amaranth seeds with honey or blood, forming them into images of gods and then consuming them. The Spanish viewed the ritual as barbaric and banned the cultivation and consumption of amaranth, executing those who violated this law. The Spanish succeeded in reducing amaranth to a minor crop grown in the outposts of the empire, where it resisted extermination and continued through the centuries to serve as a staple food for many indigenous peoples such as the Chibchas, the Inca, the Tarahumora of Mexico, and the Hopi and Tohono O’odham of Arizona in the United States.
Semantica's project with Atractor, A Tale of Two Seeds, and winner of the Golden Nica prix at Ars Electronica, highlights the fragile future of amaranth, exhibiting this September at the festival in Linz, Austria.
The political struggles waged in Latin America around the issues of food sovereignty, deforestation and the preservation of biodiversity have the multidimensional problem of monocultures as one of their focal points of dispute. Soy is, among other things, essential for livestock feed and the meat industry. For some time now, soy monocultures have been threatened by the amaranth plant. Such is the hypnotic force that soy has on amaranth that industrialists are devoting a large part of their capital to developing technology to uncouple and neutralize the spell between the two species. The corporate solution against amaranth has been a transgenic war in which an immunological mutation is operated on soy in order to diminish the virulent contagion of the indigenous grain. Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmieri) however, has not only been able to resist Monsanto’s Roundup ready efforts, but has also evolved resistance to many of the most common weed killers.
Amaranth, before being categorised a parasite, was a plant that occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples. Known as “love-lies-bleeding,” amaranth comprises roughly 60 species in the genus Amaranthus. The word “amaranth” derives from the Greek ‘amarantos’, meaning “unwithered” or “never waxing old,” which reveals the ancient Greeks’ belief that the plant symbolised immortality. Like the Greeks, Amerindians also regarded amaranth as a symbol of immortality. The Aztecs mixed amaranth seeds with honey or blood, forming them into images of gods and then consuming them. The Spanish viewed the ritual as barbaric and banned the cultivation and consumption of amaranth, executing those who violated this law. The Spanish succeeded in reducing amaranth to a minor crop grown in the outposts of the empire, where it resisted extermination and continued through the centuries to serve as a staple food for many indigenous peoples such as the Chibchas, the Inca, the Tarahumora of Mexico, and the Hopi and Tohono O’odham of Arizona in the United States.
Semantica's project with Atractor, A Tale of Two Seeds, and winner of the Golden Nica prix at Ars Electronica, highlights the fragile future of amaranth, exhibiting this September at the festival in Linz, Austria.