Voiding Skulls: A Wry (and Satirical) Look at the Practicalities of Biodynamics

What makes Rudolf Steiner unusual among cosmological thinkers is the level of detail and direction he bequeathed his followers. Nietzsche left us hanging with regard to the Übermensch and the Eternal Return, but Steiner backed up his obtuseness with practical instructions and manuals. The ‘preparations’, according to his devotees - fetid cornucopia through to chamomile-stuffed stomachs - are agents through which celestial motion is made immanent to agriculture. In modern day viniculture, where every scintilla of difference is mined for significance and (added) value, biodynamics has sunk deep roots.