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... understanding of hygiene is intimately connected with environmental degradation, a perceived “dirtiness” that is not really of their own making. Grounded in anthropological field research in rural Henan, it argues that the lack of any infrastructure to dispose of trash is core to rural environmental problems...

... of Taiwan, who suffers from the loss of her son and husband and wants to commit suicide. Alice's suicidal plan is disrupted when an earthquake and tsunami hit Taiwan, causing a trash island to break away from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and crash into the coast of Haven. Washed ashore by the trash...

... workplaces clean and safe. Years earlier, in what now seems a prescient rebuke to the anti-garbology line, PRC policy makers of the time also remarked on the political significance of attitudes about trash. Educational materials, aimed at recalcitrant cadres, explained that proper CCP governance...

..., pornographic, and otherwise not fit for degree-zero (universal) representation—ironically exhorts Philip- pine image makers to convert their violent situations and trash into capital throughthemediumoftheimage.Thisfilm,whichpointedlypositionssocial...

... of stealing things, are you deliberately trashing my reputation so that he won't find a wife?” Zhenlan replied, “You're crazy, I'm not messing with you—it's my bad luck to meet you!” After saying this, she turned around and was about to walk away. Yang chased after her with a brick in hand. As soon...

... bags are filled with food. There is an intricate link between garbage or food waste—symbolized by contaminated fish in Fresh Kill, splendid yet uncon- sumable Western entrée in 301/302, and an enormous heap of trash called Smoky Mountain in Manila...

... and the sewing machine. Physical exhaustion of a body that “no longer belonged to him” (Xiao Hai 2019b ). A dozen years in three stages he sums up as “disorientation and confusion,” “loneliness and helplessness,” and “desperation and collapse.” Anxiety because his labor seemed to create “not value but trash...

...- rial soldier, the “Red” family. For such subjects, who fall under the capa- cious rubric of “biopolitical excess” or “war trash,” the time of war cannot be disavowed.39 As Grace Cho and Hosu Kim have noted, the “war orphan” Hong ∣∣ Guest Editor’s Introduction...

... There is a children’s game sold in Japan called “Bacteria Panic.” You know you’re the loser when you’re left holding the single card marked “AIDS.” There is also a game, this one for adults, called “Human Trash Its cards, which players “buy” and “sell...

... of homeless boys rummaging through piles of garbage. One boy holds up a faded sketch of then President Corazon Aquino, which he presumably found in the trash and into which he casu- ally tosses it right back. Immediately after, another boy is shown...

... characters of Philippine Realist cinema declaring their love for one another atop the infa- mous trash heap called Smoky Mountain, while De Leon himself played a director in search of “radically new” Filipinos whose misery, poverty...

... of culinary skills. In defense, Arshi lists out a recipe for Potato Pickle Surprise, which is a display of the kind of ad hoc cooking that upper- middle- class young people living alone in the city engage in as a sur- vival mechanism. Arshi and Topsy s trash reflects this lifestyle: Domino s boxes, stacked...

... to Ai s activities eclipsed the work by others moved by this and related scenes of chronic disaster amid an everyday land- scape of environmental degradation and economic inequality.15 From a distance, Lei s installation of How Do I Protect You? (see fig. 11) looks like a pile of trash. Upon closer...

...-theorist Yasunao Tone, the bespectacled critic Ueno K¯oshi, and the critic Ishiko Junz¯o with a propeller on his head. At bottom right, a man in a suit picks a piece of trash, called “self-negation,” muttering, “It’s getting heavy...

... to trash Marx’s thought so summarily. Again, this is not because it is difficult to sympathize with the intellectual criticisms of historicism. (I will in fact go on to argue here that these criticisms have to be made central to our reading...

... is reminiscent of the debate over comparative feudalism that took place at about the same time fascism was being deposited in the trash heap of discarded historical categories. This debate also revealed a similar desire to distill the category of unwanted...

... for disciplin- positions 27:4 November 2019 840 ary force. Those who are for anarchy consider the government nowadays as real trash; nevertheless they brag about universal education. When education failed they would turn to the police and the judge [which consequently call for] the military. How would...

... urban bourgeois Japanese see someone making a living through recycling, or picking through trash to find good-­quality appliances for free, it’s not immediately clear that the particular Mickey Mouse will be schematized as a “loser,” even if he...

... 58 of running water coming from the bathroom; she was taking a shower. I walked toward the trash basket next to the bed. The basket was stuffed full of toilet paper, and a rank smell drifted toward me . . . semen mixed...

... comes home crying, because he has lacerated his foot on either a glass shard or piece of scrap metal in the local trash dump. Yet again, suffering is visceral, not abstract. However, the space developed in “Banishing the Ogre” is more than...