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what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, as scientists and philosophers weeded out incorrect, outmoded, or superseded knowledge.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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... existence that, as history proceeds, seems to become further separated from its natural origin but that never really manages to fully detach itself, and as a consequence creates a present that is haunted by the spectre of garbage. As a ...
... existence that, as history proceeds, seems to become further separated from its natural origin but that never really manages to fully detach itself, and as a consequence creates a present that is haunted by the spectre of garbage. As a ...
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... into something that persists on its own – it gets everywhere because of the very absence of concrete properties. Money is like garbage in its formlessness, its existence outside of the parameters of human time (crucially, in 3.
... into something that persists on its own – it gets everywhere because of the very absence of concrete properties. Money is like garbage in its formlessness, its existence outside of the parameters of human time (crucially, in 3.
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John Scanlan. existence outside of the parameters of human time (crucially, in so far as its value does not necessarily depend on immediate temporal constraints), and not least because it is in constant transformation.4 'Garbage' is also ...
John Scanlan. existence outside of the parameters of human time (crucially, in so far as its value does not necessarily depend on immediate temporal constraints), and not least because it is in constant transformation.4 'Garbage' is also ...
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... for the body (but for the prolongation of 'life' in the next world), where great emphasis is placed on the unavoidably damnable aspects of everyday existence? To these Christians the human body was a living, moving, garbage.
... for the body (but for the prolongation of 'life' in the next world), where great emphasis is placed on the unavoidably damnable aspects of everyday existence? To these Christians the human body was a living, moving, garbage.
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... existence beyond its human uses – and this has historically informed an understanding of the significance of wasteland, and to beliefs that certain parts of nature are inhospitable (meaning unfit for human habitation or sustenance) as ...
... existence beyond its human uses – and this has historically informed an understanding of the significance of wasteland, and to beliefs that certain parts of nature are inhospitable (meaning unfit for human habitation or sustenance) as ...
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