Overview
Explorations in the aesthetics of waste and the material infrastructure of memory.
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Author: Brian Neville ,
Johanne Villeneuve
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780791453414
ISBN 10: 0791453413
Pages: 271
Publication Date: 11 April 2002
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""The book deals with the construction of significance and the negative relation of a system to its own (unthought) foundation. The topic is as important in theoretical terms as it is in practical terms, and it leads us to question the opposition between such conventional frames of reference. This book intersects with so many other established disciplines—literary criticism, anthropology, art history, cultural studies, philosophy—and intervenes not just thematically but in their very construction as disciplines."" — Roy Sellars, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding ""Waste-Site Stories adds up to a tremendously useful compendium that will give scholars and students an easy, instantaneous footing in the research area of memory, loss, socially-engineered oblivion, the culture of wastefulness and collecting whose functioning this book helps us understand."" — Didier Maleuvre, author of Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art
The book deals with the construction of significance and the negative relation of a system to its own (unthought) foundation. The topic is as important in theoretical terms as it is in practical terms, and it leads us to question the opposition between such conventional frames of reference. This book intersects with so many other established disciplines-literary criticism, anthropology, art history, cultural studies, philosophy-and intervenes not just thematically but in their very construction as disciplines. - Roy Sellars, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding Waste-Site Stories adds up to a tremendously useful compendium that will give scholars and students an easy, instantaneous footing in the research area of memory, loss, socially-engineered oblivion, the culture of wastefulness and collecting whose functioning this book helps us understand. - Didier Maleuvre, author of Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art
Author Information
Brian Neville is an independent translator and editor. He is coeditor, with Johanne Villeneuve, of La Memoire des dechets: Essais sur la culture et la valeur du passe. Johanne Villeneuve is Professor in the Departement d'etudes litteraires at the Universite du Quebec a Montreal, where she teaches literature and film studies.
