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Vik Muniz & his waste pickers

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on February 25, 2013 | 3 Comments »

Here are my introductory comments to the 2010 documentary Waste Land, delivered yesterday at the Fleming Museum in Burlington and shown in connection with the exhibition High Trash, which runs until May 19.

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transition culture, ecology, & Bataille’s glorious excesses

Posted in Eco-culture, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , , on September 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Reading about the growing “transition towns” movement back to back with a read-through of Design Philosophy Papers’ latest issue on Bataille and “Inefficient Sustainability” has gotten me thinking about some of the unspoken premises that make their way into environmentalists’ prognostications of the future. The transition towns movement began in Totnes, England, home of the […]

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