From Centre to Periphery
CHAPTER 5
GEO-VISIONS: Land Bodies
A glossary series on bodies and shifting ecologies
RISO print
Edition: 100
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A glossary series on bodies and shifting ecologies
RISO print
Edition: 100
Printed in Germany
Unwittingly, the language invented to describe the processes of managing waste has likely contributed to obscuring their implications and realities.
Likewise myths arose that suggest sense of control and the problem of surplus matter being resolved, such as recycling. All the while, it appears as if landfills are to stay with us for lack of scaleable alternatives such as zero waste. Might the deconstruction of these myths and language aid a different reading and hence engagement with landbodies built on the globalised fiction of carbon modernity?
Likewise myths arose that suggest sense of control and the problem of surplus matter being resolved, such as recycling. All the while, it appears as if landfills are to stay with us for lack of scaleable alternatives such as zero waste. Might the deconstruction of these myths and language aid a different reading and hence engagement with landbodies built on the globalised fiction of carbon modernity?