...Rob Bullard Dirty Wars: Landscape, Power, and Waste in Western American Literature , by Beck John , Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2009 , 378 pages , $55.00 (hardcover) , ISBN 978-0-8032-2631-9 © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 John Beck, in this craftily spun...

... designers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who try to convince them to work ever harder in the name of empowerment. But the women laugh at luxury goods, designers, and middle-class activists and, instead, insist on an antiwork ethic and a valorization of leisure—on wasting time over working...

... material politics. This article explores a number of issues surrounding entanglements of media and plastics, including the formation of vast oceanic plastic garbage patches, the treatment of highly toxic electronics waste, the usage of thermal papers that disrupt the human endocrine system...

... approaches the topics from the angle of media studies and argues for new ways to understand media culture as read through a materials focus: from waste to building materials and from temperature control to more conceptual developments concerning new materialism. The introduction discusses these ideas...

... recovered, the total percentage of material recycled was only 28 percent. The circular economy is currently proffered across industry and public policy as a silver bullet to the problems of finite resource and exponential waste, but when at looked at from the perspective of holistic commodities...

...” movement that, since the 1980s, has contested the idea that environmentalism is a benefit that can only be addressed once abundant wealth has been achieved. On the contrary, activists in the movement argue, the cheap materials and zero-cost dumping of waste are “not a sign of abundance but a result...

... courtesy of the artist and Galerie Feinkost, Berlin. © BERG 2010 PRINTED IN THE UK 2010 unsolicited submission cultural waste headshot cover letter acting industry The convention of pitching yourself via your work (or is it the other way around?) to a cultural...

...-collapsed walls. Huddling around a fire, kids holding pieces of wood, ready to throw them on the fire or turn them into weapons. A group of children on a patch of waste-ground, staring out at the camera, staring at us, the viewers: they scowl, or look disdainful, or simply carry on indifferent...

...Figure 2 The finished vases are sized in relation to the amount of waste created in the production of three items of technology that use rare earth: a smartphone, a featherweight laptop, and the cell of a smart-car battery. ...

... we produce and conserve goods. But there is more to our lives and our faculties than this. He points to our interest in not producing and saving but actually losing, losing through wasteful expenditure. Initially he mentions the gratuitous expending that is gambling or buying expensive jewelry...

... and where cakes can be eaten and had at the same time. There, creative actions never waste any potential. All potential remains intact. In that zone actions never bind the actor. No consequences will ever come back to haunt them. There the sovereign has become extremely light, completely unburdened...

... to remove “impurities” that “contaminate” copper. And the rocks and minerals that are removed, whether poisons such as arsenic or valuable materials such as gold, are referred to and often treated as waste products. The cultural investment in pure materials by engineers and system builders produces...

... of the financial elites is explained away by a theory of the naturalism of economic turbulence, the behavior of the poor is scrutinized and transformed into immorality. For example, the poor are called lazy, feckless, and wasteful. Under these conditions, neoliberalism becomes a kind of a moral economy, a social...

... are called for because the extractive activities and related sonic, heat, plastic, and chemical waste streams of powerful corporations are transforming the very constitution of the seas. 1 These destructive interests are validated by an ocean governance regime that supports a resource extraction model...

... of waste. Because the product of labor could not normally be increased, but at best complemented by campaigns of pillage, it was always clear to the people of the ancient world that the value generated constituted a limited, relatively immutable quantity that was to be protected absolutely...

... or dimensions are modified), will fit as one among several kinds of resources in what I will call triangulated narratives. I want to suggest that it might be useful to think of three kinds of narratives about the land, environment, water, pollution, toxic-waste disposal, ownership and use, which I will call...

.... In this essay Adorno’s key point is that Veblen’s thesis prohibits the existence of real luxury. This is because in Veblen’s account luxury is always a necessity in a class system in which it is important to show one’s ability to consume luxury and waste money and other valuable resources. In this context...

..., it will also ward off the unwarranted objection raised by zealots (regardless of creed or color) that we seek to promote and disseminate harmful luxury. Far from advocating and paving a way for the spirit of concupiscence, weakness, and waste, we hope that our journal and related contributions will not only...

... . “ The Afterlives of ‘Waste’: Notes from India for a Minor History of Capitalist Surplus .” Antipode 43 ( 5 ): 1625 – 58 . Glassman James . 2011 . “ Critical Geography III: Critical Development Geography .” Progress in Human Geography 35 ( 5 ): 705 – 11 . Glassman James Samatar Abdi...