Discard Studies: Book Launch: Recycling Reconsidered 2/9
Thursday February 9th | 6:00 p – 8:00 p Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Samantha MacBride is pleased to announce the launch of her book Recycling...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Burning Trash: A Poem
Burning Trash By John Updike At night—the light turned off, the filament Unburdened of its atom-eating charge, His wife asleep, her breathing dipping low To touch a swampy source—he thought of death....
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Job Annoucement: Postdoc in sanitation studies, India
Dr. Kathleen O’Reilly (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, [geography.tamu.edu] is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Global Development:...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Material Literacy, Resesitating Discards and Fix-it Clinics
A number of volunteer Fixit Groups have evolved in the past few years to bring people material know-how and empathy to their ill and ailing possessions. The volunteers are eloquent and articulate when...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Article Alert: “On Rubbish” and “Rubbish as a Consequence of...
Two articles on the relationship between rubbish and commodites were published in the December issue of Theory, Culture & Society. “On Rubbish” Wang Min’an Theory, Culture & Society December...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Seduction of the instantaneous
There’s something to be said for deep engagement. I agree with Wolfgang Iser, the literary theorist and co-founder of the sub-discipline of literary anthropology, who argued passionately that focused...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Visual Culutre of Food Waste Data: Theaters of Proof
A lot of discard issues are about scale. Scale is expressed in functions of measurement or computation, yet scale is more than a quantitative sum. Scale is always relative (“bigger,” “smaller,” “less...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: SCRAP
“From a recovered pillow to a gallery installation, from a home-made costume to classroom educational materials, creative reuse includes all projects that incorporate materials that would otherwise be...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Plastic Pollution: Terrible & Charismatic Waste- Upcoming...
Trash Talk Lecture: Terrible and Charismatic Waste Max Liboiron Thursday, February 9, 6:00 pm Sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of Natural History...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Upcoming Talk: “Visualizing Vapors: The Shift from Smell to...
Date: February 7, 2012 Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Location: Chemical Heritage Foundation 315 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19106 Event Type: Open to the Public Fee: Free How did a...
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