Hybridity and the Aesthetics of Garbage

[Werner Presber]

(…) The subversive potential of garbage as metaphor is suggested in 
Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49 , where the heroine 
collects hints and traces that reveal the alternative network of 
W.A.S.T.E. as a kind of counterculture outside of the dominant channels 
of communication. (…)

(…) The pig, as Peter Stallybrass and Allon White point out, was 
despised for their specific habits: "its ability to digest its own and 
human faeces as well as other 'garbage'; its resistance to full 
domestication; its need to protect its tender skin from sunburn by 
wallowing in the mud." See The Politics and Poetics of Transgression 
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986). (…)

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