Sunday, April 29, 2007
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
Heather Rogers
On the post-WWII economy: "The government regulated the economy, capital agreed to pay higher wages based on the greater productivity available with new manufacturing methods, and workers for their part accepted consumerism in place of political power on the job and in society as a whole."
On plastic: "As Roland Barthes noted, with plastic 'the hierarchy of substances is abolished: a single one replaces them all: the whole world can be plasticized.'"
On the "Keep America Beautiful" campaign of the 60's and 70's: "The centerpiece of this organization's strategy was its great cultural invention: litter. This category of debris existed before, but KAB masterfully transformed its political and cultural meaning to shift the terms of the garbage debate. KAB wanted to turn any stirrings of environmental awareness away from industry's massive and supertoxic destruction of the natural world, telescoping ecological disaster down to the eyesore of litter and singling out the real villain: the notorious "litterbug." Taking this tack, the group could defend disposability and obsolescence; the problem wasn't rising levels of waste, they explained, it was all those heathens who failed to put their discards in the proper place."
On plastic: "As Roland Barthes noted, with plastic 'the hierarchy of substances is abolished: a single one replaces them all: the whole world can be plasticized.'"
On the "Keep America Beautiful" campaign of the 60's and 70's: "The centerpiece of this organization's strategy was its great cultural invention: litter. This category of debris existed before, but KAB masterfully transformed its political and cultural meaning to shift the terms of the garbage debate. KAB wanted to turn any stirrings of environmental awareness away from industry's massive and supertoxic destruction of the natural world, telescoping ecological disaster down to the eyesore of litter and singling out the real villain: the notorious "litterbug." Taking this tack, the group could defend disposability and obsolescence; the problem wasn't rising levels of waste, they explained, it was all those heathens who failed to put their discards in the proper place."
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Dave's Movie
(An abbreviated, educational version of one of my landfill videos for a friend's geology class--enjoy!)
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Monday, April 23, 2007
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Monday, April 02, 2007
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