ABSTRACT
Wilding the food systems is to speak of aforementioned difference; a resistance to the taming normalizations associated with existing food and agricultural policy, as evidences by, for example, the narrowing of knowledge and skills around food and by the fact that the diets are, literally, rooted to roughly ten varieties of plants. Food utopias exceed the capacity for language that is "sticky" knowledge: knowledge, as the metaphor implies, which does not travel well. To deal with knowledge of the less sticky variety, what in philosophical parlance is called "representational knowledge", or, more simply, phenomena conveyed through words, images, and sounds. Sociologists of technology talk about how non-mainstream technological artifacts sometimes require, if they are ever to mature, spaces to develop and mature. This refers to a space where novel technologies are shielded from both market and nonmarket forces. These spaces allow for buildup of that aforementioned sticky knowledge infrastructure, where people are given a chance to simply practice doing difference.
