On GarbageReaktion Books, 2005 - 207 من الصفحات This is the first work to examine the detritus of our culture in its full range; garbage in this sense is not only material waste and ruin, environmental degradation and so on, but also residual or 'broken' knowledge, useless concepts, the remainders of systems of intellectual and cultural thought. In this unique and original work (a kind of intellectual scavenging in its own right) the author shows why garbage is, perversely, the source of all that is valuable. The author considers how Western philosophy, science and technology attained mastery over nature through what can be seen as a prolonged act of cleansing, the disposal of incorrect, outmoded or superseded knowledge. By detailing the waste, ruin and nonsense that we have discarded, the author argues that we can learn new things about the accepted truths and basic building blocks of our culture; he throws new light on our modern condition by examining not what we have kept, but what we have thrown away. On Garbage shows that disposal causes not only the mountains of rubbish that we occasionally believe threatens to overwhelm us; it also creates a host of other 'garbage', particularly in the dead ends of useless knowledge and the often abject reality of our disposable lives. It turns out that we ourselves have become the garbage of our times. This bold and thought-provoking work will be of interest to readers in areas as diverse as cultural studies and social theory, the histories of philosophy, public health and the environment, as well as those interested in the aesthetics of contemporary art. |
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Preface | |
Garbage Metaphorics | |
Garbage and Knowledge | |
Garbage Aesthetics | |
Garbage Matters | |
Garbage and the Uncanny | |
Afterword | |
References | |
Acknowledgements | |
Photographic Acknowledgements | |
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A. J. Weberman appear artist becomes Bob Dylan body Cambridge Christian Garve clean clutter constitute consumer consumption contemporary Cornelia Parker Cornell Cornell's Cragg creates creation Critique of Pure culture death desire dirt discarded disorder disposal Dylan example existence experience fact fashion filth gallery garbage Garbage Aesthetics Garbage and Knowledge Garbage Matters Garbage metaphorics garbologists Garbology Harmondsworth Harvie Ferguson Heidegger human idea Jean Baudrillard John Locke Joseph Cornell Kant Kant's kind Klíma language leftovers living Locke Locke's London Love and Garbage Marcel Duchamp material means metaphysics modern society nature notes notion object world once painting Philosophical Correspondence present Pure Reason rational Rauschenberg reality recycling refuse collectors remains Robert Rauschenberg rubbish seen sense separation simply Slavoj Žižek social stuff symbolic techne things tion Tony Cragg trans trash uncanny understanding Underworld viewer waste Weberman whilst William Rathje words York