Waste: A Philosophy of ThingsWhy 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. |
Contents
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2 Narrating the Event of Waste | 29 |
3 Archaeologies of Waste | 55 |
4 The Poetic Economies of T S Eliot | 79 |
5 Reading Joycean Disjecta | 101 |
6 Ruins Past | 127 |
7 Ruins of the Future | 153 |
8 Conclusion | 177 |
Notes | 183 |
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