Waste-Site Stories : The Recycling of Memory
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| Title: | Waste-Site Stories : The Recycling of Memory |
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| Description: | Explorations in the aesthetics of waste and the material infrastructure of memory.Ours is a wasteful society, consumed with care for its remains, according to the contributors of Waste-Site Stories. Here scholars from around the world probe current notions of waste and the ways in which remains of different kinds recover value in the act of recollection and recycling. In the wake of destructive experiences that continue to trouble memory, there is something compelling about today's theoretical and artistic interest in waste and recycling. The two terms provide a purchase on changing conditions of cultural memory, on technological development and its sometimes toxic ecological and social fallout, and on the legacy of personal and historical trauma. They suggest new resources for the stories of our engagement with the things of the past and the sites where traces of history survive. |
| Authors: | Brian Neville, Johanne Villeneuve |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Historic sites--Social aspects, Historic preservation--Social aspects, Material culture, Collectors and collecting--Psychological aspects, Memory--Social aspects, Recycling (Waste, etc.)--Psychological aspects, Refuse and refuse disposal--Psychological aspects, Postmodernism, Civilization, Modern--1950- |
| Categories: | PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Explorations in the aesthetics of waste and the material infrastructure of memory.Ours is a wasteful society, consumed with care for its remains, according to the contributors of Waste-Site Stories. Here scholars from around the world probe current notions of waste and the ways in which remains of different kinds recover value in the act of recollection and recycling. In the wake of destructive experiences that continue to trouble memory, there is something compelling about today's theoretical and artistic interest in waste and recycling. The two terms provide a purchase on changing conditions of cultural memory, on technological development and its sometimes toxic ecological and social fallout, and on the legacy of personal and historical trauma. They suggest new resources for the stories of our engagement with the things of the past and the sites where traces of history survive. |
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| ISBN: | 9780791453414 9780791453421 9780791488782 |
