The Literature of Waste

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thank you, Ian!

Doesn't sound this – Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of
man to reform and transform waste – like a quote, a foreign body within the
lyrics of the song?

Is man unable to transform waste? (
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/69.521/)



Am Sa., 2. Feb. 2019 um 23:03 Uhr schrieb Ian Livingston <
igrlivingston at gmail.com>:

> One of my favorite comments on the subject.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKqpaWUFHdo
>
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 10:00 AM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I've always associated the use of the acronym W.A.S.T.E. in COL49 as
> > perhaps a double reference to getting "wasted" and to wasted human lives,
> > i.e. to those that are marginalized from the presented mainstream. I
> never
> > read it as connected to the waste of consumerist society on an
> > environmental level - though the opening Tupperware party is a warning
> > sign. Just curious how/if the novel poses and illuminates environmental
> > issues (though I see that discard studies covers more than the strictly
> > environmental).
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019, 11:43 AM Nicole Bennett <nlbennett at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > I have this book and, as an English lit. academic interested in discard
> > > studies, use it often in my research. Unfortunately, the author
> overlooks
> > > the centrality of waste in books like *The Crying of Lot 49* and
> > *Gravity's
> > > Rainbow* (she works mostly on medieval literature). There is some
> > > interesting stuff on more recent authors (Beckett, Calvino, Eliot
> > > [obviously]), but I also found the style of the book to be a bit
> > haphazard
> > > for my tastes. It's more of an observation of the different ways the
> > > concept of waste functions across a vast range of literature.
> Definitely
> > a
> > > great reference, though, for those who can afford it. Academic books
> are
> > so
> > > stubbornly and frustratingly pricey.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 8:41 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > > > From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> > > > Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 9:34 AM
> > > > Subject:
> > > > To: Me at G <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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