Mariana Mogilveich
Katamari Damacy – Video Game
“Urban Metabolism”
Urban Waste as Raw Material
Curt Gambetta
Waste facilities disengage from City & fortify themselves
“Waste remains an unruly substance.”
“Culturally, socially, materially leaky”
Perfume Barrier – McCarty Landfill, Houston
Max Liboiron
Clarify & Define definitions of Waste
You Cannot Do Discard Studies Intuitively
Fraction of 3% Municipal Waste is Household Waste
Industrial Waste – 97%, mostly mining
Waste as Metaphor
Waste as profit generator – Invented 1956 by Lloyd Stouffer
Robin Nagle
Dead Horse Bay – Remnants of People who were displaced from Sunset Park by Robert Moses
Latour – Objects have Agency
Archaeology of the Contemporary Past
Samantha McBride – Recycling Reconsidered
Museum of Waste
Capital / Ecology / Sovereignty
Trans-natural, Porosity, Seepage
Museum – Spectacle
– Experiment with Production of Knowledge
Analytic Satire
Discussion
ML – Call for Definitional Precision
What is the educational system for?
Who Governs the Ocean?
“We are lettered parasites…who have… disciplined hinterlands” – Vera Candiani
ML – Impossible Problems –> Changing Business as Usual
You need: Collaboration –> Compendium (vocabulary)
Methodology should no be based on metaphor
Theory of Scale and Power
Overthrow Capitalism
RN – “It cannot stay inside the academy otherwise we are only talking to ourselves”
How do you do a research question with other people?
Don’t use metaphor as a case study. What can this metaphor do/not do? How are we wielding it? Where does the metaphor stop?
WASTELANDS
Vittoria DiPalma
Early Biblical Texts: Weston – Wilderness (primitive) – Wastland (despoiled proof of devine censure, place of salvation by transforming to a garden)
SWAMP – visceral disgust, science/technology, increase usefulness & mitigate contamination
MOUNTAIN – fear, repulsion, fascination, attraction – sublime
FOREST – moral disgust, gardening, redemption
FENS = Wetlands
We have the same reactions as our ancestors to wastelands.
Use visceral disgust –> Action
Moral –> Hold polluters accountable
Redemption –> Art *** Can sanction contempolation rather than engagement
Love grows from intimate knowledge.
Wastland does not inspire love.
Lindsey Dillon
Industrial Wastelands
Cleanup is impossible but only way forward offered.
“Slow violence”
Damon Rich
Sol Lewinsky – Where do “publics” come from?
Popular Education – Using people’s esixting knowledge
Jane Jacobs
Emotion <-> Aesthetics
OBSOLESCENCE
Infrastructure – Conceptualized as layers, each resting on each other
Possibility of Radical Ethics around contraction (of economy) in relationship to artist’s work
Great Depression – Pausing of suburban expansion, looking inward
Problem underlying urbanism
Sanitary City –> Toxic City (w/ local inflections)
Anne Percoco 