On GarbageReaktion Books, 01/03/2005 - 208 من الصفحات How do we decide what is junk? The discarded remnants of our daily lives may no longer be useful to us, yet John Scanlan proposes in On Garbage that our trash is actually a treasure trove of artifacts that reveals intriguing insights into the modern human condition and the evolution of Western culture. On Garbage is the first book to examine the detritus of Western culture in full range—not only material waste and ruin, but also residual or "broken" knowledge and the lingering remainders of cultural thought systems. Scanlan considers how Western philosophy, science, and technology attained mastery over nature through what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, as scientists and philosophers weeded out incorrect, outmoded, or superseded knowledge. He also analyzes how disposal not only produces overwhelming mountains of waste, but creates dead bits of useless knowledge that permeate the reality of modern Western societies. He argues that physical and intellectual debris reveal new insights into the basic tenets of Western culture and, ultimately, that the abject reality of our disposable lives has led to us becoming the "garbage" of our times. |
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... Locke (and which later served to underpin the expansion of the American colonies). The first thing worth noting is that Locke's view of nature (and the human relationship to land) strongly reflected a Calvinist notion of stewardship ...
... Locke (and which later served to underpin the expansion of the American colonies). The first thing worth noting is that Locke's view of nature (and the human relationship to land) strongly reflected a Calvinist notion of stewardship ...
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... Locke's discussion of property in his Second Treatise of Government outlines the philosophical basis for claims to propriety over land (but also extends to a whole host of what we might call 'natural resources'). In Locke's terms ...
... Locke's discussion of property in his Second Treatise of Government outlines the philosophical basis for claims to propriety over land (but also extends to a whole host of what we might call 'natural resources'). In Locke's terms ...
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... Locke's time – the seventeenth century – there appeared to be a general concern, especially within Christian thinking, that the fruits of nature are not simply given as a consequence of some existing state of abundance. In fact the ...
... Locke's time – the seventeenth century – there appeared to be a general concern, especially within Christian thinking, that the fruits of nature are not simply given as a consequence of some existing state of abundance. In fact the ...
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... Locke. To be sure, nature is subject to constant upheavals that are destructive, or that lay waste to natural features of the physical environment, but, as Glacken notes in his discussion of George Hakewill (a seventeenth-century ...
... Locke. To be sure, nature is subject to constant upheavals that are destructive, or that lay waste to natural features of the physical environment, but, as Glacken notes in his discussion of George Hakewill (a seventeenth-century ...
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... Locke's understanding of waste has come to be associated with a theory of property rights, it was nonetheless driven ... Locke shares the rather different view also found in the work of some seventeenth-century natural philosophers that ...
... Locke's understanding of waste has come to be associated with a theory of property rights, it was nonetheless driven ... Locke shares the rather different view also found in the work of some seventeenth-century natural philosophers that ...
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