CUNY Academic Commons | Roberta Jackson | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/rjackson/activity/ Activity feed for Roberta Jackson. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 5b89578d6384dc9e1aff21cace55c372 Roberta Jackson commented on the post, Week 7 -- journalism and ethnography, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/15/week-7-journalism-and-ethnography/#comment-108 Thu, 17 Mar 2016 03:33:50 -0400 The garbage men of NYC are out everyday removing garbage from the streets and transporting it to landfills and waste disposal plants. Rose Nagel use of Marcus (pg7) “even when an object has been abandoned by the […]

]]> 6e6a2ec589e0fd041a36bf9106120a09 Roberta Jackson commented on the post, Week 6 blog prompt and note on readings, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage https://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/06/week-6-blog-prompt-and-note-on-readings/#comment-81 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 06:37:13 -0500 Blog 2 (aesthetic)

Aimee Von VonBokel – Artist installation

JR’s installation of photographs of people in an abandoned decaying hospital depicts persons awaiting their venture into a new world, leaving […]

]]> d094fbe76af6d72e6233651fc77c116b Roberta Jackson commented on the post, Week 5 -- economies of waste and recycling, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage https://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/02/week-5-economies-of-waste-and-recycling/#comment-61 Thu, 03 Mar 2016 05:42:16 -0500 Joshua Reno “Your Trash is someone’s Treasure: the Politics of value at a Michigan landfill”
volume 14, issue 1 of the Journal of Material Culture, City of Michigan

(p17)”The orderliness of sanitary landfills […]

]]> fd15f25014f5a06fdc1c671d4683efd7 Roberta Jackson commented on the post, Week 4 blog prompt -- Transatlantic Modernism, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage https://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/22/week-4-blog-prompt-transatlantic-modernism/#comment-39 Thu, 25 Feb 2016 05:18:14 -0500 (p13) Williams uses the World War I Modernity of the virile male and the threat of the unleased feminine flow posed by industry and shifting gender roles. Women in the workforce post modern was a change that […]

]]> ed34506426d63584baff0c286d0f3a0f Roberta Jackson commented on the post, Blog response for week 3 (Feb. 18) -- Douglas, Kristeva, Freud, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage https://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/03/blog-response-for-week-3-feb-18-douglas-kristeva-freud/#comment-23 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 07:23:27 -0500 I agree with Reno’s summary of Douglas – current society will view cow-ding as pollution,impure. However Dougkas’ Purity and Danger (9) cow-dung is a cleansing agent. The cow is views as sacred a god, in fact […]

]]> ac9ebfcf7bae5b8d2c0b263d2f396ed6 Roberta Jackson commented on the post, Blog response for week 2 (Feb. 11) -- general introductions to waste, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/03/blog-response-for-week-2-feb-11-general-introductions-to-waste/#comment-17 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:36:25 -0500 Hoarder or Collector

While visiting street fairs and festivals in the City years ago I started collecting African American figurines. In Brooklyn at the African festival and Atlantic Antic I found booths with […]

]]> 186cddb00c10fb921f2a29ad8731beb8 Roberta Jackson became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/426552/ Thu, 11 Feb 2016 18:31:59 -0500 0a48638cb7f1cb0d8120f6f3d7016d42 Roberta Jackson commented on the post, Blog response for week 2 (Feb. 11) -- general introductions to waste, on the site MALS70000: Waste Matters: Economy, Ecology, and Cultures of Garbage http://wastematters.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/02/03/blog-response-for-week-2-feb-11-general-introductions-to-waste/#comment-8 Thu, 11 Feb 2016 07:29:23 -0500 Hoarder or Collector?

I started collecting African figurines years ago while going to street fairs in the City. I found booths there that were selling handmade figurines. I brought a lot at the African […]

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