The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life

The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life

John Scanlan
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This book starts with the premise that waste is inevitable in human society. The Idea of Waste explores how we have grappled with both the material reality and the spectre of this shape-shifting phenomenon throughout history - utilizing it, dreaming of overcoming it, yet never escaping it. John Scanlan explores what waste is and why it seems to be intrinsic to human life, at every turn, in every age and epoch.

Finally, he demonstrates how waste never disappears, but rather only proliferates anew. The compelling narrative shows waste to be both an enduring material consequence of human activity and an idea or state of being.

     

    Author: John Scanlan 

    Publisher: Reaktion Books

    Format: Hardback

    Pages: 256

    ISBN: 9781836390343

    Publication Date: March 2025

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