Discard Studies: San Francisco’s Famous 80% Waste Diversion Rate: Anatomy of...
Despite San Francisco’s 80% diversion rate, the average person sends about 2.7 pounds per day to landfills. On a per person basis, it would seem that record-setting San Franciscans send roughly the...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: It Doesn’t Take a Fireman to Spot a Fire: Fighting Pollution...
In early 2010 LABB introduced the iWitness Pollution Map to help Louisiana residents track pollution and associated health effects in their communities. Today there are over 11,000 reports of...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: A Taxonomy of Unformed Objects
What is it about our present—what forces, what infrastructures of global capital, conditions of planetary climate change, non-innocent affective economics—that provokes so many scholars to find the...
View ArticleDiscard Studies: Questions arising from discards and ‘An Inquiry into Modes...
In effect, what I'm asking is what happens when we follow the 'side-effects' or discards of industry (in the literal and more metaphorical sense)? Do we bump into 'collateral realities' (Law, 2009) of...
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