Trash Culture Objects and Obsolescence in Cultural Perspective

• Other Authors: Bullen, J. Barrie (Editor), Pye, Gillian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2011, c2010
• Edition: 1st, New ed.
• Series: Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts 11
• Subjects: hmotná kultura; životní prostředí; odpad; sociologie kultury; material culture; environment; waste products; sociology of culture; trash culture; elektronické knihy; electronic books

In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of trash, which for environmentalists...