Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction

Dini, Rachele

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-58165-5

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“…Till exempel argumenterar Rachele Dini för att 1900-talets avant garde-konst kännetecknas av en stark tro på skräpets radikala potential. 51 Detta förhållningssätt fortsätter sedan att prägla konst och litteratur under 1960-och 70-talen. Genom att utgå från ett slags skräpestetik, som fokuserar på och använder sig av avfall, skräp och sopor, söker konst och litteratur ifrågasätta det kapitalistiska systemet samt visa på alternativ.…”

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Barn-tv i Skräpocen

Wistisen

2023

TfL

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Children’s Television in the Wasteocene. Waste as Motif, Aesthetics, and Resistance in the Children’s TV-Show Ville, Valle och Viktor upptäcker Sverige (1970) 1970s Swedish children’s culture is filled with waste. Increased environmental awareness, combined with a changed perspective on both children’s cultural aesthetics and play, contributed to a greater focus on trash, pollution, and waste materials in children’s books, theater, film, and television. This article argues that the children’s program Ville, Valle och Viktor upptäcker Sverige (1970) can be interpreted as a critique of life in the Wasteocene, the socio-ecological era that began with the Great Acceleration after World War II. The purpose of the article is to explore the many functions of waste in the TV-show. It examines the questioning of modern society based on issues of motif, aesthetics, and resistance. The analysis is based on Marco Armiero’s thoughts on the epoch “Wasteocene” and the concept of waste aesthetics, as a description of the formal experiments that characterized the 1970s children’s culture. Both ideas are drawn from research conducted within Waste studies, a growing field of cultural analysis that expands traditional approaches of ecocriticism by focusing on decay, built environments, and toxic sites. The article concludes that Ville, Valle och Viktor upptäcker Sverige undermines the hegemonic narrative of the Wasteocene in several ways: by portraying waste as valuable and useful, by placing local environmental problems in a larger context, and by conveying a sense of hope for the future.

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Barn-tv i Skräpocen

Wistisen

2023

TfL

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“…Moreover, we can view waste as “matter out of time” (Viney, 2015). Thus, if waste is the product of a process, and “signals the aftermath of an occurrence” (Dini, 2016, p. 3), we need to understand its multiple temporalities as it transforms from having a use value to becoming of no use. Indeed, as Viney states, “with our recognition of waste comes an acknowledgement of time's passing, its power to organize notions of wearing, decay, transience and dissolution” (2015, p. 3).…”

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Becoming an island: Making connections and places through waste mobilities

Arnall

Kothari

2020

Trans Inst British Geog

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Islands, long portrayed in the Western imaginary as remote, static, and bounded entities, have increasingly come to be viewed as places constantly in the making: as connected sites formed by complex and shifting relations and assemblages of people and things. This paper considers the role that waste plays in this process through exploration of how discarded and unwanted matter decays, moves, and comes to rest in relation to a small island in the Maldives. It shows how thinking about the island through waste and its circulation via the actions of human and non-human agents reveals the ways in which the island is constituted and connected to other places. The paper also examines people's daily, practical engagements with the island's waste, and how these ongoing interactions and encounters shape the ways in which the island is being made, materially and aesthetically. In these ways, we show how thinking through waste contributes to how we understand place-making and specifically to the making of islandness.

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“…Waste-as I have argued elsewhere-provides an apt lens through which to understand all of Ballard's work (Dini, 2016). 5 Surplus humans and material remnants serve in his texts as plot devices and background 'props' as well as instigators to the questions he is posing about the relationship between capitalism, technology, and social organisation.…”

Section: Towards a Theory Of Anthropogenic Ballardian Wastementioning

confidence: 99%

Consumerism, Waste, and Re-Use in Twentieth-Century Fiction

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