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Waste / Brian Thill.

Van Pelt Library TD791 .T45 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Thill, Brian.
Series:
Object lessons
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Refuse and refuse disposal--Philosophy.
Refuse and refuse disposal.
Refuse and refuse disposal--Moral and ethical aspects.
Personal belongings--Psychological aspects.
Personal belongings.
Waste (Economics).
Psychological aspects.
Philosophy.
Physical Description:
138 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc, 2015.
Summary:
"Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object may be, it is also waste-or was, or will be. All it takes is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled relationship with the decaying world outside ourselves. 'Waste' focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our lives and attempts to understand our complicated emotional and intellectual connections to our own refuse: nuclear waste, climate debris, pop culture rubbish, digital detritus, and more"--Jacket.
Contents:
The beach that speaks
Trash familiars/Tabflab
Pigs in space
Million-year panic
Ruinism
Splinter, shard, and stone
Where the hoard is
Lake Carbamazepine.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127) and index.
ISBN:
9781628924367
1628924365
9781628924381
1628924381
9781628924398
162892439X
OCLC:
889996972
Publisher Number:
99981561458

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