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Introduction: Markets, Materiality, and Biopolitics
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Published:September 2015
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In 2004, New York comedian Lewis Black stood on a Broadway stage and delivered a long rant about bottled water. It began like this:
We care so much about health that during the last twenty-five years we destroyed water. Because when I was a child this was the simplest thing of all, this was the essence of life. And when you were thirsty—and that’s the operative word, ladies and gentlemen—the word is and always will be “thirsty” not “hydrate,” they made that fucking word up! I could go anywhere in my house, I could go to three or four different rooms, I could even go to the basement and get clean water and drink it … mmmmmh … and then go back out and play, and those were great times. But then they decided that every town and village that had water coming to it and all they had to do was clean it: “We’ll save money, we won’t clean the water so much and with the money we save we can then buy the water at the supermarket.” Try to go through this logic with me: our country had water coming to our homes and even if we were locked out we could still get clean water and we said: “No, fuck you! I don’t want it to be so damned convenient, I want to drive and drive and look for water—just like my ancestors did.” So now we buy water from Coke and Pepsi because when I think clean water, well yeah, I fucking think Coke and Pepsi.… Aquafina? I think that means the end of water as we know it.
(Black 2004)
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