{"id":83310,"date":"2018-10-05T06:22:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/how-capitalism-ruined-our-relationship-with-bacteria"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:01:43","slug":"how-capitalism-ruined-our-relationship-with-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/how-capitalism-ruined-our-relationship-with-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"How capitalism ruined our relationship with bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QjaQdOXPJHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Rather stupid title (as so often), but interesting article nevertheless\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>And it\u2019s quite a filter. <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/1470593118796678\">Our analysis<\/a> of advertising images of bacteria from 1848 to the present day finds four broad conventions. Understanding these conventions shows how our relationship with this essential dimension of earth\u2019s biome is subject to the aims and desires of the manufacturers of cleaning products.<\/p>\n<p><b>1. Cute bacteria<\/b><\/p>\n<p>First, bacteria are <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org\/record=b1164289\">cute<\/a>. They are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloribus.com\/adsarchive\/promo\/multan-bacteria-have-to-stay-outside-15829105\/\">small, vulnerable and toy-like<\/a>. Their eyes are big and their limbs are tiny. This is strange, considering that advertisements for bacterial products are persuading us to kill these beings by the billion.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-capitalism-ruined-our-relationship-with-bacteria-103944\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-capitalism-ruined-our-relati...ria-103944<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rather stupid title (as so often), but interesting article nevertheless\u2026 And it\u2019s quite a filter. Our analysis of advertising images of bacteria from 1848 to the present day finds four broad conventions. Understanding these conventions shows how our relationship with this essential dimension of earth\u2019s biome is subject to the aims and desires of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83412,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83310\/revisions\/83412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}