Spectacles Of Waste

Author : Warwick Anderson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509557423
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacles of Waste written by Warwick Anderson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce waste. Why must we live by the rules of this intense scatological embarrassment? In Spectacles of Waste, leading historian of medicine Warwick Anderson reveals how human excrement has always complicated humanity’s attempts to become modern. From wastewater epidemiology and sewage snooping to fecal transplants and excremental art, he argues that our insistence on separating ourselves from our bodily waste has fundamentally shaped our philosophies, social theories, literature and art—even the emergence of high-tech science as we understand it today. Written with verve and aplomb, Anderson’s expert analysis reveals how in recent years, humanity has doubled down on abstracting and datafying our most abject waste, and unconsciously underlined its biopolitical signature across our lives.

Author : Carl A. Zimring
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1452266670
Total Pages : 1225 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste written by Carl A. Zimring and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 1225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists and anthropologists have long studied artifacts of refuse from the distant past as a portal into ancient civilizations, but examining what we throw away today tells a story in real time and becomes an important and useful tool for academic study. Trash is studied by behavioral scientists who use data com­piled from the exploration of dumpsters to better understand our modern society and culture. Why does the average American household send 470 pounds of uneaten food to the garbage can on an annual basis? How do different societies around the world cope with their garbage in these troubled environmental times? How does our trash give insight into our attitudes about gender, class, religion, and art? The Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste explores the topic across multiple disciplines within the social sciences and ranges further to include business, consumerism, environmentalism, and marketing to comprise an outstanding reference for academic and public libraries.

Author : Brian Thill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162892439X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waste written by Brian Thill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it's also waste-or was, or will be. All that is needed 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 also attempts to understand our complicated emotional and intellectual relationships to our own refuse: nuclear waste, climate debris, pop-culture rubbish, digital detritus, and more. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

Author : Bruce Magnusson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806168
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacle written by Bruce Magnusson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global media and advances in technology have profoundly affected the way people experience events. The essays in this volume explore the dimensions of contemporary spectacles from the Arab Spring to spectatorship in Hollywood. Questioning the effects that spectacles have on their observers, the authors ask: Are viewers robbed of their autonomy, transformed into depoliticized and passive consumers, or rather are they drawn in to cohesive communities? Does their participation in an event�as audiences, activists, victims, tourists, and critics�change and complicate the event itself? Spectacle looks closely at the permeable boundaries between the reality and fiction of such events, the methods of their construction, and the implications of those methods.

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subject-matter Index of Specifications of Patents Dated ... written by Great Britain. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Science Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mira Engler
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801878039
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing America's Waste Landscapes written by Mira Engler and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-05-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Teresa Ferreira de Almeida Alves
Publisher : Vu University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ceremonies and Spectacles written by Teresa Ferreira de Almeida Alves and published by Vu University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume explores, from the perspective of several academic disciplines, the role of the performing arts in American culture, as much as the many ways in which American culture itself can be considered as performed, as created in individual and collective acts of cultural performance." "Americanist scholars from Europe and the United States deal with several different aspects of how American cultural identity(ies) is (are) staged: from public spectacle to the performative text, from ritual, popular theater, and home theatricals to communal festivities and celebrations. The book's focus is on widely different areas of political and cultural life and on different phases of American cultural history from the revolutionary period to the present."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : O.P. Gupta
Publisher : KHANNA PUBLISHING HOUSE
ISBN 13 : 938260975X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elements of Solid & Hazardous Waste Management written by O.P. Gupta and published by KHANNA PUBLISHING HOUSE. This book was released on with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the essential features of Solid & Hazardous Waste Management covering the following topic: Introduction to Solid Waste Management Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management Industrial Solid Waste Management Radioactive Waste (BMW) Management e- Waste Management Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) Besides, Short question & answers and multiple-choice questions & answers drawn from the examination papers of various engineering colleges and professional bodies examination given at the end of the book enhances its utility for the students. The book will be useful for degree, postgraduate & diploma courses in engineering, AMIE, AMIIM & AMMIIChe examinations.

Author : Christoph Lindner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317554426
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Garbage written by Christoph Lindner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Naples, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. In particular, the book examines how, and under what conditions, contemporary imaginaries of excess, waste, and abandonment perpetuate – but also sometimes counter – the imbalances of power that are frequently associated with the global metropolitan condition. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to the fields of anthropology, architecture, film and media studies, geography, urban studies, sociology, and cultural analysis.