I decided to highlight how Jane Benette describes the dangers of treating material objects as if they possessed a social/political meaning although she argues for the importance of recognizing material objects as […]
I find Martha Rosler’s words and performance/installation to be very fascinating. I actually went to the Meta-Monumental Garage Sale at MOMA and remember being shocked at the sight of old underwear for sale. […]
I find Sedgwick and Moon’s linking of waste and fat somewhat convincing and interesting. Fat can be connected the notion of “spoiled identity.” Fat people carry shame wit them and some may make a […]
1. Both Joshua Reno and Derf Backderf worked in waste/garbage industry in the Midwest. Reno’s co-workers introduced in Your Trash is Someone’s Treasure: the Politics of Value at a Michigan Lan […]
In Wasted Lives, Zygmunt Bauman talks about the struggle the Generation X (young men and women born in the 1970s in developed countries) faces, notably unemployment. This generation […]
Waldrop quotes Max/Engels’s view on a writer (189). If we apply this view to poets, in most cases, they are not productive workers in capitalist economy. Waldrop writes “the whole small press world, rather tha […]
In the Ragpicker’s wine, Baudelaire identifies himself (a poet) with a ragpicker. A ragpicker collects garbage and turns it into something useful while “the poets find the refuse of society on their streets and […]
I do agree with Reno’s summary of Douglas. From Douglas’s writing, it can be inferred that Inherent qualities of what you deem disgusting do not determine if it really is “disgusting.” In fact, it is societies or […]
In p48, Scanlan writes “Indeed, the disorder of a great deal of contemporary art is founded on the fact that either objects are not what they seem to be (usually they are worthless tat), or (like garbage) they […]
