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what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, as scientists and philosophers weeded out incorrect, outmoded, or superseded knowledge.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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... sense of the detached remainder of the things we value) is everywhere. Indeed, our separation from it is the very thing that makes something like a culture possible. It will also be seen that the creation of garbage results from a more ...
... sense of the detached remainder of the things we value) is everywhere. Indeed, our separation from it is the very thing that makes something like a culture possible. It will also be seen that the creation of garbage results from a more ...
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... sense degrades its original meaning. Such an approach would surely entail that we have no legitimate right to depart from its Old French origins because, perhaps, its fifteenth-century English usage degrades that. Clearly, the reason ...
... sense degrades its original meaning. Such an approach would surely entail that we have no legitimate right to depart from its Old French origins because, perhaps, its fifteenth-century English usage degrades that. Clearly, the reason ...
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... sense (but still nonetheless connected, even if this is an unwelcome hanging-on) from the things it creates. In an unproblematic sense garbage is leftover matter. It is what remains when the good, fruitful, valuable, nourishing and ...
... sense (but still nonetheless connected, even if this is an unwelcome hanging-on) from the things it creates. In an unproblematic sense garbage is leftover matter. It is what remains when the good, fruitful, valuable, nourishing and ...
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... sense, steals the world for its own ends (and, to paraphrase Schelling, such duplicity ultimately sees the world rise against us).1 Garbage is the formlessness from which form takes flight, the ghost that haunts presence. Garbage is the ...
... sense, steals the world for its own ends (and, to paraphrase Schelling, such duplicity ultimately sees the world rise against us).1 Garbage is the formlessness from which form takes flight, the ghost that haunts presence. Garbage is the ...
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... sense of worthless or foul literary matter. These three principal senses of garbage tell us one important thing and this is that the creation of garbage is the result of a separation – of the desirable from the unwanted; the valuable ...
... sense of worthless or foul literary matter. These three principal senses of garbage tell us one important thing and this is that the creation of garbage is the result of a separation – of the desirable from the unwanted; the valuable ...
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