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 ix
... things simply are. “Trash” has no technical but many popular meanings. Contrary to “ontol- ogy” and the esoteric inquiry this word denominates, “trash” has at most a street-level significance, which rarely rises above the curb or, in ...
... things simply are. “Trash” has no technical but many popular meanings. Contrary to “ontol- ogy” and the esoteric inquiry this word denominates, “trash” has at most a street-level significance, which rarely rises above the curb or, in ...
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... things themselves'. Its oth- erwise unhappy mixture of the academic and the pedestrian is prescribed by the subject matter itself. Hence, my honest desire to take trash up squarely has inevitably resulted in the queer incongruities of ...
... things themselves'. Its oth- erwise unhappy mixture of the academic and the pedestrian is prescribed by the subject matter itself. Hence, my honest desire to take trash up squarely has inevitably resulted in the queer incongruities of ...
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... things were not always as they are in the age of high technology, that “most Americans produced little trash before the twentieth century,”1 the study asks how and why beings have become disposable. Something far more urgent than mere ...
... things were not always as they are in the age of high technology, that “most Americans produced little trash before the twentieth century,”1 the study asks how and why beings have become disposable. Something far more urgent than mere ...
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The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature Greg Kennedy. required consumers to buy things rather than make them and to throw things out rather than fix them.”2 Most of us now recognize that such a relationship, responsible for untold ...
The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature Greg Kennedy. required consumers to buy things rather than make them and to throw things out rather than fix them.”2 Most of us now recognize that such a relationship, responsible for untold ...
Página xiv
... things away. Yet even among the well-heeled a different attitude toward things than ours held sway. Things were, as the cliche goes, built to last. Patina covered objects with special value. Ownership prized the historical continuity of ...
... things away. Yet even among the well-heeled a different attitude toward things than ours held sway. Things were, as the cliche goes, built to last. Patina covered objects with special value. Ownership prized the historical continuity of ...
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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