What makes trash trash? How do we decide what to throw away? Driven
by these questions and others, Samuel Amago takes us through the
streets and alleys of Spain, sorting through recycling bins,
libraries, social media, bookstores, and message boards in search
of things that have been forgotten, jettisoned, forsaken. Ranging
in topic from the transformation of urban space during the
transition to democracy to a twenty-first-century sanitation strike
that paralyzed Madrid for weeks, from the films of Pedro Almodovar
to graphic novels about Spain's housing crisis, Basura presents an
alternative story of contemporary Spanish culture through the lens
of wasted things.Not merely an environmental problem, the
proliferation of trash is an indicator of the social, political,
and economic processes that undergird late, neoliberal capitalism.
In chapters on cinema, photography, archaeology, drawing, comics,
literature, ecology, and urban design, Amago places waste objects
into dialogue with the cultural practices and structures of power
that have produced them. Drawing from archaeological, ecocritical,
and new materialist approaches, Amago argues that discards possess
agency and generate an array of effects. Just as trash never fully
disappears but returns to haunt its creators, so history never
vanishes despite being buried or ignored by official narratives.
Basura considers the efforts of artists, writers, and designers for
whom waste is a means to withstand cultural erasure.
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