ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a polemic and several short provocations designed as possible interventions to this approach but also to the field of agri-food studies more broadly. The author's polemic surrounds this desire to shift rhetoric and conceptualisations from consumer to eater. The chapter follows three short provocations these are: The first begins to question the ways that the vital materialisms work by Jane Bennett and others has been applied to food and eating. The second provocation is one that looks to bring in the inescapable role of the media in governing the biological economies of food, with respect to eating. The final provocation is one that encourages the development of more enactive and performative research methods and encounters, specifically through the use of autobiography by food scholars. The chapter incorporates both food cultures and political economies into a biological economies approach to the knowing and growing of contemporary food networks, assemblages and politics. Eating is a practice of intimate connection.
