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what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, as scientists and philosophers weeded out incorrect, outmoded, or superseded knowledge.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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... whilst the uses of the word garbage have changed over time, all its instances nonetheless retain a general conceptual unity in referring to things, people, or activities that are separated, removed and devalued. The point is that the ...
... whilst the uses of the word garbage have changed over time, all its instances nonetheless retain a general conceptual unity in referring to things, people, or activities that are separated, removed and devalued. The point is that the ...
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... whilst rejecting something else) that inaugurates a lifetime of cutting off, disconnection and removal. Nevertheless, these activities become the principal means of marking off the valuable and worthy, and in this sense differentiation ...
... whilst rejecting something else) that inaugurates a lifetime of cutting off, disconnection and removal. Nevertheless, these activities become the principal means of marking off the valuable and worthy, and in this sense differentiation ...
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... whilst waste clearly stands for a remainder; a potential exhausted through use, 'to waste' is equally to squander in the distinct sense of not making the best use of something (time, resources, opportunities and so on) where the ...
... whilst waste clearly stands for a remainder; a potential exhausted through use, 'to waste' is equally to squander in the distinct sense of not making the best use of something (time, resources, opportunities and so on) where the ...
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... whilst 'the earth is the scene of great transports of soil from one place to another, in the wearing down of mountains, in the building up of deltaic plains ... nothing is lost'.28 Hakewill outlines the argument given by some of his ...
... whilst 'the earth is the scene of great transports of soil from one place to another, in the wearing down of mountains, in the building up of deltaic plains ... nothing is lost'.28 Hakewill outlines the argument given by some of his ...
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