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Waste
Object Lessons
- Bloomsbury Academic
- by Brian Thill
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic |
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ISBN | 9781628924367 |
Author(s) | Brian Thill |
Publication date | November 2015 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 165 x 121 mm |
Illustrations | 20 bw.ill. |
Pages | 152 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
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.
Waste