Walking Archives: The Soy Children

Who are children of genetically modified soy production? What disowned bastards are produced
by the hybridization of agri-business, biotech, capital, and culture?

To answer these questions the Archivo Caminante (Walking Archive) embarks on a trip through
the opaque and strange world of genetically modified soya plants in Argentina in search of its
inhabitants, forms and structures, languages and narratives: the forces that swirl around the soya
rhizome. In the style of Gulliver's Travels it makes visible some of the routes in the soya chain
giving shape to a new international division of labor food policy in global semiocapitalism.

More than 50% of the cultivated lands in Argentina are for soya production, with 90% of that
area covered by Monsanto products and representatives. This agrarian system and its results
are only possible using Roundup herbicide, the brand name of Monsanto's glyphosate. The
rhizome formed by soya production dives deep into the Argentine society: it organizes new
political alliances, and, above all, modifies the social and cultural structure of the country. Is
there a transgenic culture inside semiocapitalism? Does the soyazation process modify culture
and society, or is it the other way around, and soyazation is only possible in a transgenic culture?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Minor Compositions
Published: 07/01/2012
ISBN: 9781570272448
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.80w x 0.30d