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what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, as scientists and philosophers weeded out incorrect, outmoded, or superseded knowledge.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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... , effects the separation of the human from the natural), is the great garbager that roots both the experience of the self with reality, and the development of the technological appropriation of nature. Chapter Three, 'The Aesthetics.
... , effects the separation of the human from the natural), is the great garbager that roots both the experience of the self with reality, and the development of the technological appropriation of nature. Chapter Three, 'The Aesthetics.
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... reality of an 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 ...
... reality of an 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 ...
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... reality of human moral and social degradation becomes apparent. In Ivan Klíma's Love and Garbage, the narrator (a writer moonlighting as a street-sweeper) is haunted by his knowledge of the fate of friends and family who perished in the ...
... reality of human moral and social degradation becomes apparent. In Ivan Klíma's Love and Garbage, the narrator (a writer moonlighting as a street-sweeper) is haunted by his knowledge of the fate of friends and family who perished in the ...
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... reality that could just as easily be garbaged and reconstituted as something new. When we consider the metaphorical applicability of garbage to most aspects of contemporary experience, it is clear that without first settling on some ...
... reality that could just as easily be garbaged and reconstituted as something new. When we consider the metaphorical applicability of garbage to most aspects of contemporary experience, it is clear that without first settling on some ...
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