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Comment by Tony Venezia on August 14, 2011 at 23:37

IOWA JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES - WASTE 10/11

Introduction: waste 

Joshua Gooch

From Production to Destruction to Recovery: Freeganism’s Redefinition of Food Value and Circulation

Michelle Coyne

“Inevitable Grottoes”: Modern Paintings and Wasted Space

Maura Coughlin

Inside the Sanitation System: Mierle Ukeles, Urban Ecology, and the Social Circulation of Garbage

Mark B. Feldman

“Baby, I am the garbage”: James Schuyler’s Taste for Waste

Christopher Schmidt

“They’re literally shit”: Masculinity and the Work of Art in an Age of Waste Recycling

Olivia Banner

An Interview with Janice Radway

Conducted by Loren Glass

Comment by Tony Venezia on August 1, 2011 at 11:32

Ha Ha!  Surely that should be More Rubbish...?

Comment by Natalie Joelle on August 1, 2011 at 1:33

Thanks all for a fascinating day! Bring on Rubbish the Second...

Comment by William Viney on July 31, 2011 at 16:44

Here's a link to that Thomas Sebeok article about semiotics and radioactive wastes. It gives an odd kind of introduction to semiotics in general, but also a provocative justification for the creation of an 'atomic priesthood':

 

Thomas Sebeok, "Pandora's Box: How and Why to Communicate 10000 Yea...

Comment by Daniel Rourke on July 21, 2011 at 15:12

Rubbish Facebook Event Page: Invite everyone (and fill their facebook stream with academic trash)

Comment by Daniel Rourke on June 9, 2011 at 9:56

Some great links on here. Am looking forward to going them. Since I'll probably be talking about digital rubbish, here's a link to a blog that's worth browsing through: gli.tc/h/blog

Comment by Tony Venezia on June 8, 2011 at 8:53

RUBBISH EVENTS DIGEST

 

WASTE & LITERATURE: THE POET AS RAGPICKER

Professor Susan Morrison (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies) will give the Dean's Seminar in June 2011 at the School of Advanced Study

Date and Time:	15 June 2011 at 12:30 pm
Duration:	1 hour 30 minutes

Venue: Senate House

Free to attend.  RSVP to troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk

 

DIRT SCREEN CELEBRATES FILTH AT THE PICTURES

As part of its exhibition ‘Dirt: The filthy reality of everyday life’, Wellcome Collectionis offering a rare opportunity to see award-winning films about the divisive, taboo-breaking and intriguing world of dirt and to meet the producers and directors bringing filth to the big screen.

 

16TH-19TH June 2011: Dirt, Waste Land, Gasland, Nightcleaners

Screenings free, booking required.

 

Comment by Amanda Sciampacone on June 5, 2011 at 22:38

For anyone who is interested, I have started a reading group that will address the varied ideas of 'filth.' Thank you Tony for letting me discuss this with you and for your advice.

Comment by Natalie Joelle on May 16, 2011 at 23:00

Chemical waste seeping on the shore of a 'forgotten garbage dump' spawns luminous, hyper-verdant life in J.G. Ballard's short story 'Dream Cargoes'. As this urgently ‘awakening life’ reaches the limit of its ‘cellular clocks’, the redundant captain protagonist is doubly wasted- ‘distracted by the wonder of everything' and potentially ‘happy to stare at a stone all day’. Around the island, itself a ‘left-over of nature’, ‘phosphorescent fish’ propel themselves through both the aquatic cocktail and evolution, forming features that ‘seemed to prepare them for life on land’, before becoming disposable in death: ‘their gleaming bodies’ float ‘like discarded costume jewellery’.

Comment by Tony Venezia on May 13, 2011 at 9:01

POST-INDUSTRIAL FANTASTIC RUINS

 

Strange vapours wafted over the roofs.  The converging rivers on either side ran sluggishly, and the water steamed here and there as its currents mixed nameless chymicals into potent compounds.  The slop from failed experiments, from factories and laboratories and alychymists' dens, mixed randomly into bastard elixirs.  In Brock Marsh, the water had unpredictable qualities.  Young mudlarks searching the river quag for scrap had been known to step into some discoloured patch of mud and start speaking long-dead languages, or find locusts in their hair, or fade slowly to translucency and disappear.

 

China Mieville, Perdido Street Station

 

 

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