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what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, as scientists and philosophers weeded out incorrect, outmoded, or superseded knowledge.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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... fact that it was followed by the words 'won't pick it up, don't try to throw my life away'. Was the song urging that we should all become trashier? Devote our lives to decadence – or perhaps that we might retreat from trash? This is ...
... fact that it was followed by the words 'won't pick it up, don't try to throw my life away'. Was the song urging that we should all become trashier? Devote our lives to decadence – or perhaps that we might retreat from trash? This is ...
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... context of this spectre of garbage when we can point to the fact that material garbage in contemporary society is the physical and objective counterpart of metaphorical garbage. Pierre Daret, 'Man is Nothing But a Bit of Mud',
... context of this spectre of garbage when we can point to the fact that material garbage in contemporary society is the physical and objective counterpart of metaphorical garbage. Pierre Daret, 'Man is Nothing But a Bit of Mud',
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... fact that garbage is the mucky handprint of a being that carries on regardless, a dirty trace, the wreck of beauty, and in the most recognizably banal sense, the excrement of a body. Garbage indicates the removal of qualities ...
... fact that garbage is the mucky handprint of a being that carries on regardless, a dirty trace, the wreck of beauty, and in the most recognizably banal sense, the excrement of a body. Garbage indicates the removal of qualities ...
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... fact, as Madeline Pelner Cosman has written, the iconography of hell presents images that would have been familiar to the inhabitants of towns and cities during the Middle Ages precisely because of their familiarity with garbage. A ...
... fact, as Madeline Pelner Cosman has written, the iconography of hell presents images that would have been familiar to the inhabitants of towns and cities during the Middle Ages precisely because of their familiarity with garbage. A ...
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... fact the belief is quite the contrary; that there is no such abundance – there is only waste – and without the vigilance of God expressed through his stewards on earth, 'the order of nature would be wiped out in a moment and would ...
... fact the belief is quite the contrary; that there is no such abundance – there is only waste – and without the vigilance of God expressed through his stewards on earth, 'the order of nature would be wiped out in a moment and would ...
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