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what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, as scientists and philosophers weeded out incorrect, outmoded, or superseded knowledge.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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... 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 or less imperceptible contest between life and death – because death constitutes ...
... 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 or less imperceptible contest between life and death – because death constitutes ...
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... separated, removed and devalued. The point is that the chiefly metaphorical use of garbage that is employed here is the ... separation of the human from the natural), is the great garbager that roots both the experience of the self with ...
... separated, removed and devalued. The point is that the chiefly metaphorical use of garbage that is employed here is the ... separation of the human from the natural), is the great garbager that roots both the experience of the self with ...
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... 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 result of such an understanding the environmental concerns ...
... 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 result of such an understanding the environmental concerns ...
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... separation – of the desirable from the unwanted; the valuable from the worthless, and indeed, the worthy or cultured from the cheap or meaningless. And it is because differentiation is a fundamental human activity that garbage is ...
... separation – of the desirable from the unwanted; the valuable from the worthless, and indeed, the worthy or cultured from the cheap or meaningless. And it is because differentiation is a fundamental human activity that garbage is ...
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