Discard Studies: Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950 @ The...
The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, is showing Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950 until May 2014.
View ArticleDiscard Studies: A Taxonomy of Unformed Objects
What is it about our present—what forces, what infrastructures of global capital, conditions of planetary climate change, non-innocent affective economics—that provokes so many scholars to find the...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Waste, and Other Forms of Management @ NYC Anthology Film...
Like Emily Post’s famous edict on social decorum, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, these works present studies in logistics, in performance, and in how to look the other...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Solutions to waste and the problem of scalar mismatches
Waste advocacy and popular environmentalism suffer from a constant mismatch of scales. Problems are at one scale, and solutions are at another. This article calls for shift in cultural discourses that...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Questions arising from discards and ‘An Inquiry into Modes...
In effect, what I'm asking is what happens when we follow the 'side-effects' or discards of industry (in the literal and more metaphorical sense)? Do we bump into 'collateral realities' (Law, 2009) of...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Article Alert-Becoming Pure: The Civil Sphere, Media...
"I found that people compare themselves with and against each other regarding values and norms associated with news and responsible citizenship, and that these comparisons have implications for their...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Calling All Readers: Discard Studies Fiction?
We are launching a new resource list of literary fiction that examines, exemplifies, or challenges the roles of waste and wasting in society. Help us figure out what to include. We're looking for...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Article Alert- The Sydney Metropolitan Strategy as a zoning...
This article moves analyses of urban obsolescence beyond Marxism to demonstrate that Foucauldian theory can provide revealing insights about the stewardship of discourses of urban obsolescence through...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Crowdsourcing light pollution data: A means of...
The Globe at Night project is an international citizen-science campaign to measure the impact of light pollution. It invites citizen-scientists (aka: you) to measure their night sky brightness and...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Archive Alert! Chicago Recycling Coalition
The archives of the Chicago Recycling Coalition are now cataloged and available for use. They comprise the CRC's battles to end incineration of waste in Chicago in the 1980s, and also the long history...
View Article
