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what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, as scientists and philosophers weeded out incorrect, outmoded, or superseded knowledge.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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... actually produced chance as the residue or 'uncombinable' aspect of its ceaseless drive to colonize the unknown and confusing. I was at this time working on my doctoral thesis at the University of Glasgow, and had recently written a ...
... actually produced chance as the residue or 'uncombinable' aspect of its ceaseless drive to colonize the unknown and confusing. I was at this time working on my doctoral thesis at the University of Glasgow, and had recently written a ...
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... actually sounded more like traaaeeeuuyuusshhhhhh, followed quickly by the rest of the line. But I had misheard it. So beguiled was I by his magnificent rendering of 'trash' that I never got the fact that it was followed by the words ...
... actually sounded more like traaaeeeuuyuusshhhhhh, followed quickly by the rest of the line. But I had misheard it. So beguiled was I by his magnificent rendering of 'trash' that I never got the fact that it was followed by the words ...
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... actually transforms it into something else. Domesticates it. It is highly appropriate that we have to glean our material from the leftover or overlooked parts of a conventional academic discourse that is, I will argue here, itself ...
... actually transforms it into something else. Domesticates it. It is highly appropriate that we have to glean our material from the leftover or overlooked parts of a conventional academic discourse that is, I will argue here, itself ...
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... actually like shit (i.e., human garbage): not only because it is alienated from the person (like excrement is from the body), but also because the separation allows its further development into something that persists on its own – it ...
... actually like shit (i.e., human garbage): not only because it is alienated from the person (like excrement is from the body), but also because the separation allows its further development into something that persists on its own – it ...
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... actually decaying matter – they appear contagious. The further he sinks into the life of a street-sweeper the more acute the metaphor of garbage becomes in describing everything that threatens our well-being. As a child, he recalls how ...
... actually decaying matter – they appear contagious. The further he sinks into the life of a street-sweeper the more acute the metaphor of garbage becomes in describing everything that threatens our well-being. As a child, he recalls how ...
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