Waste and Abundance: The Measure of Consumption
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Waste and Abundance: The Measure of Consumption

Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 116, 37:2 (2008)

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  2. English
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Waste and Abundance: The Measure of Consumption

Special Issue of SubStance, Issue 116, 37:2 (2008)

About this book

This collection of articles relates to a research area currently developing in the Humanities, which calls for philosophical and historical approaches to questions of sustainable development and waste management.  The title of the issue reflects the central questions raised by all contributors: how are waste and abundance represented, how may we conceptualize these representations, and what ethical problems do they raise?
    Particular attention is paid to the cultural and moral factors that condition our attitudes to waste and the ways in which literature addresses the problematic relationship that binds production, consumption and waste to social and political systems.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword - Waste and Abundance: The Measure of Consumption
  3. Messing with the Archive: Back Doors, Rubbish and Traces in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K by Catherine Bates
  4. The Waste-Management Poetics of Kenneth Goldsmith by Christopher Schmidt
  5. The Excremental Ethics of Samuel R. Delany by Mary Catherine Foltz
  6. “There’s no Lack of Void”: Waste and Abundance in Beckett and DeLillo by Peter Boxall
  7. The Immorality of Waste: Depression-Era Perspectives in the Digital Age by Samantha MacBride
  8. “London is All Waste”: Rubbish in Patrick Keiller’s Robinson Films by James Ward
  9. Wong Kar-wai’s Films and the Culture of the Kawaii by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
  10. Feux et Signaux de Brume: Virginia Woolf’s Lighthouse by Michel Serres
  11. Reviews
  12. Contributors