Warwick Anderson 
Spectacles of Waste [PDF ebook] 

Soporte

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce waste. Why must we live by the rules of this intense scatological embarrassment?

In Spectacles of Waste, leading historian of medicine Warwick Anderson reveals how human excrement has always complicated humanity’s attempts to become modern. From wastewater epidemiology and sewage snooping to fecal transplants and excremental art, he argues that our insistence on separating ourselves from our bodily waste has fundamentally shaped our philosophies, social theories, literature and art—even the emergence of high-tech science as we understand it today.

Written with verve and aplomb, Anderson’s expert analysis reveals how in recent years, humanity has doubled down on abstracting and datafying our most abject waste, and unconsciously underlined its biopolitical signature across our lives.

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Introduction: Modern Excrementalities and Postcolonic Biopolitics
Chapter 1: The Sewage Panopticon
Chapter 2: The Waste That Therefore I am?
Chapter 3: The Colon-ized World
Chapter 4: Powers of Ordure
Chapter 5: Gut Feelings and Dark Continents
Conclusion: A Topsy-Turvy Creature

Sobre el autor

Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics at the University of Sydney. In 2023, he was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 186 ● ISBN 9781509563197 ● Tamaño de archivo 1.4 MB ● Editorial John Wiley & Sons ● País GB ● Publicado 2024 ● Edición 1 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 9380954 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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