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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Página xii
... reason, which soars far above the teachings of experience, and in which reason is indeed meant to be its own pupil.”3 It seeks answers beyond the immediate world of sense perception. A certain will belongs to such an endeavor, a will to ...
... reason, which soars far above the teachings of experience, and in which reason is indeed meant to be its own pupil.”3 It seeks answers beyond the immediate world of sense perception. A certain will belongs to such an endeavor, a will to ...
Página xiii
... reason to end up mute and transfixed in the pres- ence of the ineffable. Rather, remaining cognizant of the inherent tenden- cies and biases of explicative speculation, it will employ metaphysics with an eye to how the latter inevitably ...
... reason to end up mute and transfixed in the pres- ence of the ineffable. Rather, remaining cognizant of the inherent tenden- cies and biases of explicative speculation, it will employ metaphysics with an eye to how the latter inevitably ...
Página xiv
... reason alone. Consequently, substance is matter completely divorced from our sensuality. In opposition to this, I wish to implant matter into our somatic sensitivity. For the purpose of this study, “physicality” implies the entire ...
... reason alone. Consequently, substance is matter completely divorced from our sensuality. In opposition to this, I wish to implant matter into our somatic sensitivity. For the purpose of this study, “physicality” implies the entire ...
Página xv
... 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 antiques and heirlooms, but even here the meaning of their longevity has changed ...
... 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 antiques and heirlooms, but even here the meaning of their longevity has changed ...
Página xvi
... reason why the perfectly functional cup must be thrown out upon its being emptied. Nor can we attribute the mystery to mere convention, to the irrational mores of consumer society. Something extraordinary, despite its everydayness, is ...
... reason why the perfectly functional cup must be thrown out upon its being emptied. Nor can we attribute the mystery to mere convention, to the irrational mores of consumer society. Something extraordinary, despite its everydayness, is ...
Contenido
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2 The Body | 23 |
3 Food | 55 |
4 The City | 89 |
5 Trash | 121 |
6 Human Extinction | 157 |
Before the End | 183 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index | 213 |
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An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature Greg Kennedy Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
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Página 199 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Página 199 - To enjoy. As much as any one can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils, so much he may by his labour fix a property in; whatever is beyond this is more than his share, and belongs to others.
Página 199 - Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Página 200 - This illusion gives rise in turn to one final delusion: It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself.
Página 93 - This fact simply implies that the object produced by labor, its product, now stands opposed to it as an alien being, as a power independent of the producer. The product of labor is labor which has been embodied in an object and turned into a physical thing; this product is an objectification of labor. The performance of work is at the same time its objectification.
Página 6 - If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contravention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is system.
Página 199 - Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men.
Página 43 - The blind man's stick has ceased to be an object for him, and is no longer perceived for itself; its point has become an area of sensitivity, extending the scope and active radius of touch, and providing a parallel to sight.