Our notorious habits of disposal appear to have put us well on the
way to making the earth inhospitable to life. But our relation to
rejectamenta includes much more than shedding and tossing. Trash
Talks offers a portrait of the surprisingly intimate bonds we
maintain with the dumped and discarded. Scavenging with abandon
from sundry sources, Elizabeth V. Spelman explores the extent to
which we rely on trash and waste to make sense of our lives and to
shape connections among us. Examples are deliriously rich: We use
people's rubbish to gain otherwise hard-to-get information about
them. We trumpet wastefulness to proclaim our superior standing. We
appear to think that there is a "right" relation to trash and that
not having it betrays flaws in one's character or very being. We
are intrigued by or in distress over the idea that evolution is a
prodigiously wasteful process. In the ubiquitous heaps of our
garbage and trash, some see consequences of the clamorous
dissatisfaction so worrisome to our ancient sages, while others
find confirmation of a flourishing consumer economy. We count on
there being telling differences between those who know waste when
they see it and those who don't. While we may want to shove debris
and detritus out of sight, many of our most impassioned projects
involve keeping them resolutely in mind.
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