النفايات . مدخل إلى الشك والخطأ والعبث

by John Scanlan

"On Garbage shows that disposal causes more than the mountains of rubbish we sometimes fear will overwhelm us; it also creates a host of other 'garbage', particularly in the all-too-often abject reality of our disposable lives. It seems, indeed, that we ourselves have become the garbage of our times." This book will interest readers in areas as diverse as cultural studies and social theory, the histories of philosophy, public health and the environment, and the aesthetics of contemporary art.

Genres: Philosophy, Sociology, Cultural

Unknown Binding

First published March 1, 2005

Reviews

[Doa'a Ali · Rating 5 out of 5]

لم أتوقع حين اقتنيت الكتاب بنية الاهتمام بموضوع بيئي؛ أنني سأقرأ هذا الزخم الفلسفي والفني والاجتماعي، كتاب عالق بذاكرتي وقد عدت اليه مرارا لقراءة افكاره التي تكشف عن نفسها اكثر مع طول العشرة... سعيدة بالبدء بكتاب ثاني يعالج موضوع الذاكرة لنفس هذا الفيلسوف ذو الفكر الثاقب...

[Apubakr · Rating 5 out of 5]

كتاب عظيم جداً . أنصح به

[Fran · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first couple of chapters are really smart and insightful. After that the book loses focus and it's not quite clear what he's actually arguing.

[Maryam Alhamar · Rating 4 out of 5]

كتاب جميل، عميق بمواضيع فلسفية عدة، قد يستلزم أكثر من قراءة واحدة
يدفع القارئ للتفكير والنظر بأمور لا يفكر بها عادة

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was not everything I had hoped for. But it was very good. He covers a really broad range of theoretical, philosophical, and cultural references. It reminds me of Jon MacKenzie's "Perform or Else" in both that range of sources and the lack of coherent synthesis. I like the artists he mentions as touch-stones (Rauschenberg, for instance), and I really liked his inclusion of advertising materials for goods + services (such as paper shredders or cautioning about identity theft) as objects of study but it didn't really come together for me in the end. I wished he had put together something more compelling, disturbing, dislocating for me as a contemporary, garbage producing american. On a positive note, this book feels like a book-length expansion of a PhD Dissertation, and I think that is kind of neat. I certainly will come back to it to chase down his references. I'm still searching for theories of abject materiality.

[Odeta Putkyte · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book really misses the main driving idea, namely Scanlan's position on garbage. If it is that garbage loses signification, then the book is too much bits and bobs of everything. However, I liked the example of a garbology pioneer doing in a way ethnographic research on people's garbage, for example, digging into the garbage of Bob Dylan.