No Satiation

Will tries to sort out the entangled subjects of writing and potatoes. He analyzes a clip of writer Steven Johnson talking with Kerri Miller about how potatoes were at the center of a turning point in writer Michael Pollan's career. Pollan greatly influenced Johnson and his book The Botany of Desire, which devotes a chapter to potatoes, changed not only the way we look at food in America, but also the way we see ourselves as food writers. Will draws on the new materialism of Karen Barad to help theorize methods of tracing entanglements practiced by many contemporary popular and academic writers.