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Garbage in popular culture : consumption and the aesthetics of waste /
"Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Globalization, Consumption, and Media
- Media Representations of Garbage
- Materiality and Morality
- Identities, Inequalities and Individualities
- Domesticity and Civic Duty
- Space and Time
- The Structure of This Book
- 2 Agency and Action
- Reduce or Self-brand? The Luxury of Waste-free Consumption
- Reuse in Art: Subjectivity, Surface, and Communication in Rubbish Artworks
- Recycle to Empower? Owning Labor in the New Economy
- Waste-work and Wasteful/l Subjects
- Individuals in the Trashocalypse: Working with Horror or Hope?
- 3 Hedonism and Luxury
- After the Party: The Litterscape Post-Glastonbury and Other Festivals
- "Untouched" Tropical Beaches and the Problem of Waste
- Leaving No Trace? Ethical Trash Efforts at Afrika Burn
- Trash-Traces: There Is No Away in Pleasurable Consumption
- Happy Nihilism? The Moral Cost of Hedonism and Luxury
- 4 Devastation and Affect
- Oil and Plastic: Oceanic Detrita as Part of Material Consumer Culture
- Whose Fault Is It Anyway? Accounting for "Accidental" Spills
- Reading the Slick: Spectacle, Scale, and the Monstrous
- Narrating the "Gyre": Plasticity, Affect, and Devastation
- The New Sublime: Trashscapes beyond Consumer Comprehension
- 5 Public Objects, Wasted Subjects, Uncertain Futures
- Rubbish: The Most Public of All Objects
- Homo Detritus: Subjectivities Defined by Rubbish
- The Beauty of Saying Goodbye: Self, Other, Planet
- Imagining Another World: Consumption without Waste?
- References
- Index