... would argue that for some people climate change is more visible than for others, it remains a global environmental problem not easily felt on the ground. On the other hand, waste appears to be an incumbent presence, almost impossible to avoid; it also seems more localized than global climate change...

... the MLA? From gentlemen's club to professional association. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 1. www.workplace-gsc.com/features1/watt.html . The Waste Product of Graduate Education TOWARD A DICTATORSHIP OF THE FLEXIBLE...

...David Boarder Giles This essay explores the cultural economy of commercial waste. Drawing from ethnographic research with Dumpster divers in Seattle, Washington, and other cities with comparable waste streams, it explores the ways in which waste may constitute a distinct cultural-economic logic...

... of housing, transport, health, schooling, employment, environment, and food supply, it also created feelings of waste, loss, and loneliness. All the pieces draw inspiration from a range of urban projects such as the Hot City Collective in New York, the Workers’ Stories Project in Glasgow, the Black Lives...

... is proposed to sketch out a form of cultural production that does or might lay waste not only to institutional targets of critique but also to the structurally immanent belief in institutional reform that underlies the aesthetics of that critique. It is an invitation to reconsider some key myths...

... individualism and a climate of uncare. Further, both explicitly articulate this vision by working with conceptual and material waste. Trash is their literal and metaphoric medium. These artists relied upon what is seen as surplus value by the city. But as Pharr and Weston use it, trash offers a critique...

...-than-human worlds in what one could best describe as a spiritual engagement with the abandoned, unremarked leavings of nuclearization, industrial capitalism, and waste cultures. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Indigenous futurisms settler colonialism onto...

... as in the past, imperialism shapes the fates of peoples in a new moment and scale of active wasting of lives, including the vast nonhuman beings comprising planetary life. Imperialism operates through war and relentless assaults on the independent living of those I refer to as the becoming-human...

... extraction as resources for capital creates toxic tailings as well as other waste. Waste in turn serves as content flows for other capitalist industries of management and securitization. Waste must be processed, moved, channeled. Flows are made to be managed and therefore must be instigated to be processed...

... Wastes and Race in the United States” study. 94 Such an approach insists that BIPOC experiences are central to understanding impacts of US environmental, energy, and infrastructural projects and how they are experienced, represented, imagined, and located. Electricity theft both contributes...

...—an excess that must find outlets for its expenditure. In capitalism, this expenditure takes the form of war, toxic waste, anxiety, money hoarding, or food waste (to name just a very few). But expenditure need not be destructive. Festivals, parties, concerts, and the like are forms of expenditure that forge...

... of energy in living systems. As Fritjof Capra explains, “These studies established recycling as a key principle of ecology. Being open systems, all organisms in an ecosystem produce wastes, but what is waste for one species is food for another, so...

... to overcoming, it survive?” but “what does it do with its excess?” In his reading, destruction must be central to social organization. Warfare, sacrifice, religious devo- also always builds tion, monuments, art, and gifts all constitute forms of waste and excess; only a healthy society partakes...

... a return to an idyllic existence before human intervention. Indeed, human-made infrastructures across the borderlands that could support the environment of the region, such as waste disposal systems and public parks, have instead fallen into disrepair because of the single focus on securitization. Finding...

... around sexual “waste,” where she writes that “black sexuality is constructed as wasteful through its intimate connection with the anus,” and “black sexualities are nonproductive and nonreproductive.” 3 Of course, not all expressions of asexuality and feedism are Black, but both are put uncomfortably...

... on NYU and the Academic Labor Movement Kitty Krupat and Laura Tanenbaum 27 Student Unionism and Sustaining Student Power Charlie Eaton 51 Hooked on Higher Education and Other Tales from Adjunct Faculty Organizing Micki McGee 61 The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward...

... Interlocutors and Partners Even though diverse actors can collaborate to reach heightened economic opportunities across the world, it has been another matter to use these often very sophisticated arrangements to take care of local development issues, such as sanitation, waste collection, and other...

... on the different kinds of waste that characterize Burridge’s story: physical waste, wasted time, wasted energy. Just as Burridge finds his body rebelling against him — his leg slamming the table, his bowels loosening, his fragile composure vanishing — the nar- rative itself is interrupted by analogous...

... and sheer volume of labor embodied in the time-con- suming work; chronotistically, one is unsettled by the gross expenditure of time on a single task. If time-consuming labor appears to lavish too much time on a single object, and thus appears to waste time...