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Spectacles of Waste
von Warwick Anderson
Verlag: Polity Press
Gebundene Ausgabe
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5740-0
Erschienen am 05.06.2024
Sprache: Englisch
Format: 229 mm [H] x 145 mm [B] x 20 mm [T]
Gewicht: 363 Gramm
Umfang: 184 Seiten

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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



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.



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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