Trash Culture Objects and Obsolescence in Cultural Perspective

In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of trash, which for environmentalists...

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Other Authors Bullen, J. Barrie (Editor), Pye, Gillian (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bern Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2011, c2010
Edition1st, New ed.
SeriesCultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts 11
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783035302042
Physical Description1 online zdroj (266 stran)

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  • Contents: Gillian Pye: Introduction: Trash as Cultural Category - Kevin Hetherington: The Ruin Revisited - Sonja Windmüller: 'Trash Museums' Exhibiting in Between - Lee Stickells/Nicole Sully: Haunting the Boneyard - Kathleen James-Chakraborty: Recycling Landscape: Wasteland into Culture - Tahl Kaminer: The Triumph of the Insignificant - Douglas Smith: Scrapbooks: Recycling the Lumpen in Benjamin and Bataille - Uwe C. Steiner: The Problem of Garbage and the Insurrection of Things - Wim Peeters: Deconstructing 'Wasted Identities' in Contemporary German Literature - Catherine Bates/Nasser Hussain: Talking Trash/ Trashing talk: Cliché in the Poetry of bpNichol and Christopher Dewdney - Randall K. Van Schepen: The Heroic 'Garbage Man': Trash in Ilya Kabakov's The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away - Joel Burges: The Television and the Teapot: Obsolescence, All that Heaven Allows, and a Sense of Historical Time in Contemporary Life - Harvey O'Brien: 'Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well my next one will be better': Edward D. Wood Jr, Tim Burton and the Apotheosis of the Foresaken.