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Media type:
Book
Title:
Waste
:
a philosophy of things
Contains:
Machine generated contents note:Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Introduction Part I: Collecting Waste -- 2. Narrating the Event of Waste -- 3. Archaeologies of Waste Part II: Reading Waste -- 4. The Poetic Economies of T. S. Eliot -- 5. Reading Joycean Disjecta Part III: Building Ruins -- 6. Ruins Past -- 7. Ruins of the Future -- 8. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references ( pages [181]-214) and index
Description:
"Why are people so interested in what they and others throw away? This book shows how this interest in what we discard is far from new -- it is integral to how we make, build and describe our lived environment. As this wide-ranging new study reveals, waste has been a polarizing topic for millennia and has been treated as a rich resource by artists, writers, philosophers and architects. Drawing on the works of Giorgio Agamben, T.S. Eliot, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, James Joyce, Bruno Latour and many others, Waste: A Philosophy of Things investigates the complexities of waste in sculpture, literature and architecture. It traces a new philosophy of things from the ancient to the modern and will be of interest to those working in cultural and literary studies, archaeology, architecture and continental philosophy"--