An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and Its Problematic NatureState University of New York Press, 2012 M02 1 - 238 páginas Plastic bags, newspapers, pizza boxes, razors, watches, diapers, toothbrushes ... What makes a thing disposable? Which of its properties allows us to treat it as if it did not matter, or as if it actually lacked matter? Why do so many objects appear to us as nothing more than brief flashes between checkout-line and landfill? In An Ontology of Trash, Greg Kennedy inquires into the meaning of disposable objects and explores the nature of our prodigious refuse. He takes trash as a real ontological problem resulting from our unsettled relation to nature. The metaphysical drive from immanence to transcendence leaves us in an alien world of objects drained of meaningful physical presence. Consequently, they become interpreted as beings that somehow essentially lack being, and exist in our technological world only to disappear. Kennedy explores this problematic nature and looks for possibilities of salutary change. |
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... consumers. Despite its proximity and familiarity, we have no clear understanding of what trash truly is. In the face of landfill shortages and escalating disposal rates, some of us might ponder the best manner to handle the junk, but we ...
... consumers. Despite its proximity and familiarity, we have no clear understanding of what trash truly is. In the face of landfill shortages and escalating disposal rates, some of us might ponder the best manner to handle the junk, but we ...
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... consumer commodi- ties, from the paper plate to the fashions featured in last year's Vogue, reit- erate the ... consumers to buy things rather than make them and xi Introduction.
... consumer commodi- ties, from the paper plate to the fashions featured in last year's Vogue, reit- erate the ... consumers to buy things rather than make them and xi Introduction.
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The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature Greg Kennedy. required consumers to buy things rather than make them and to ... consumer lifestyle, from our true existence. To bring up “true existence” is to invite further and thornier ques ...
The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature Greg Kennedy. required consumers to buy things rather than make them and to ... consumer lifestyle, from our true existence. To bring up “true existence” is to invite further and thornier ques ...
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... consumer marketing: if people could learn to discard cars that still worked, for reasons of style or new technologies, they could certainly come to think of anything else as disposable.”5 Some of us may continue to polish the patina of ...
... consumer marketing: if people could learn to discard cars that still worked, for reasons of style or new technologies, they could certainly come to think of anything else as disposable.”5 Some of us may continue to polish the patina of ...
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Contenido
1 Waste | 1 |
2 The Body | 23 |
3 Food | 55 |
4 The City | 89 |
5 Trash | 121 |
6 Human Extinction | 157 |
Before the End | 183 |
Notes | 189 |
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An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature Greg Kennedy Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
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