Xaq Frohlich
Xaq Frohlich is an Assistant Professor of History of Technology in the Department of History at Auburn University. His book, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in American in the Information Age, explores the historical intersection of science, law, and markets, and how the three have shaped our modern, everyday understanding of food, risk, and responsibility. His work explores questions relating to consumerism and the changing relationships between the state, experts, and the public in the production of everyday knowledge: how do we “know” what we know about food and its relation to health? In what ways has our informational environment for food changed with the industrialization of food production and retailing?
Issues edited by Xaq Frohlich
Articles authored by Xaq Frohlich
Preface: Food Infrastructures
The Editors of Issue #4 take a look at the concept of "food infrastructures."
Labels for Life
The labels on our food exist in a complex political struggle over consumers’ attention. Xaq Frohlich walks us through the information infrastructure of the label and its impact on our “choices.”