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what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, as scientists and philosophers weeded out incorrect, outmoded, or superseded knowledge.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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... condition, perhaps impersonal (and again, directly banal, as in the case of pornography, which reduces the unique person to a thing, a body with no interior life, no intellect, and thus a form devoid of real beauty). This too marks the ...
... condition, perhaps impersonal (and again, directly banal, as in the case of pornography, which reduces the unique person to a thing, a body with no interior life, no intellect, and thus a form devoid of real beauty). This too marks the ...
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... condition (as when the representatives of God encapsulate the life cycle as the same beginning and end – 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust'). At a human level a violent stripping away of (positive) characteristics consigns its victims to an ...
... condition (as when the representatives of God encapsulate the life cycle as the same beginning and end – 'ashes to ashes, dust to dust'). At a human level a violent stripping away of (positive) characteristics consigns its victims to an ...
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... condition (in the metaphorical sense), or degraded husk of some former object, it seems to lack conventional symbolic referents, and in a sense the stuff of garbage is the remainder of the symbolic order proper (which nonetheless is a ...
... condition (in the metaphorical sense), or degraded husk of some former object, it seems to lack conventional symbolic referents, and in a sense the stuff of garbage is the remainder of the symbolic order proper (which nonetheless is a ...
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... conditions (hotel chains and squats, holiday clubs and refugee camps, shanty towns threatened with demolition or doomed to festering longevity); where a dense network of means of transport which are also inhabited spaces is developing ...
... conditions (hotel chains and squats, holiday clubs and refugee camps, shanty towns threatened with demolition or doomed to festering longevity); where a dense network of means of transport which are also inhabited spaces is developing ...
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... condition required it of him. God and his reason commanded him to subdue the earth, i.e. improve it for the benefit of life, and therein lay out something upon it that was his own, his labour.20 Implicit in this passage is the idea of a ...
... condition required it of him. God and his reason commanded him to subdue the earth, i.e. improve it for the benefit of life, and therein lay out something upon it that was his own, his labour.20 Implicit in this passage is the idea of a ...
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