Un millón y medio de árboles de caucho y una ciudad estadounidense trasplantada en medio de la selva amazónica.
Fordlândia fue un desmesurado proyecto botánico, comercial y social.
Pero un hongo y una rebelión culinaria le mostraron a Henry Ford que hay cosas que no se pueden estandarizar.
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Este episodio tuvo como fuentes principales los libros Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, de Greg Grandin, Fordlandia, de Eduardo Sguiglia y Crónicas del reino de los hongos, de Kuhar, Romano, Grassi y Sequeira; los artículos Matem todos os americanos, publicado en la revista Piauí, Ford and the Fuhrer, en The Nation, Fordlandia (o la parábola de los trópicos), en Altaïr y Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, Exploring the Ruins of Ford’s Fantasyland en NY Times
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La música original es de Maximiliano Martínez y el diseño de la portada es de Pablo Corrado. Ximena Cedrés es la voz de Funga.
Los sonidos de la selva fueron grabados por George Vlad para su canal de Youtube.
Se utilizaron temas libres de derecho como cortina; gracias a Chris Haugen, Dan Lebowitz y NEFFEX.
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Gastropolítica es una serie escrita y narrada por Maxi Guerra para Funga, ecosistema de contenidos.
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