Waste
By: Brian Thill
Series: Object lessons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781628924367
Subjects: Personal belongings; Moral and ethical aspects; Waste (Economics); Psychological aspects; Refuse and refuse disposal; Philosophy
Description: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it's also waste-or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled relationship with the decaying world outside ourselves. Waste focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our lives and also attempts to understand our complicated emotional and intel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.