An Ontology of Trash: The Disposable and Its Problematic Nature

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Abram, David, 35–37, 99 advertising, xv, 67, 79, 88, 139, 180 affluence, 18–19 agriculture. See farming aletheia, 112–113 alienation, 92–95, 103 Anderson, A. D., 78 Angst, 125 anorexia nervosa, 106 anthropomorphism, 25, 38, 146–147 Arendt, Hannah, 170–171 Aristotle, 67, 84, 107, 175 Athens, 111–112, 158 Augustine, Saint, 186 authenticity, 131, 163, 164 Bacon, Francis, 47, 58 Baudrillard, Jean, xv–xvi, 10–13, 154 Becker, Ernest, 8, 33–34 Benedict, Saint, 149 Berkeley, George, 162 Berry, Wendell, 103–108, 110–111, 173 Bhagavadgita, 26 bodhisattvas, 152–153 body, xiii–xiv, 23–54, 107–110 absent, 44–45, 115 bookish, 34–53 capital and, 95–99 caring for, 131–136, 175 needs of, 24–26, 32, 50, 55, 103–107, 114–115, 134 wastes of, 7–8, 51, 56–57, 119 See also embodiment Borgmann, Albert, 47, 85, 104, 116 on commodification, 74, 75 device paradigm of, 58–62, 70, 87–88, 97, 105–106, 136–137 on engagement, 110 on virtual reality, 202n21 Bourke, John Gregory, 51 Buddhism, 22, 49, 138, 186, 190n19 Heidegger and, 20, 150–151 Suzuki on, 134 bulimia, 106 care, xvi, 5, 121–133, 150, 167, 168, 174 Dasein and, 121–126, 129–131, 141 “taking care” versus, 123, 125–130 uncaring and, 144–149, 164 worldly, 130–133 Cerbone, David, 191n21 Chaga (tribe), 56–57 cities, 89–119 garbage of, 3, 57, 89–91, 118–119 industrialization and, 93–94 Merton on, 118 Mumford on, 117 213 Index Sennett on, 176 Simmel on, 96–97 Spengler on, 97, 100 cloning, 49 Coca-Cola Corporation, 82, 85, 87, 139, 174 commodification alienation and, 94–95 Baudrillard on, xv–xvi bodily care and, 131–133, 141, 175 Borgmann on, 74, 75 disposibility and, 139–140 of food, 62–75, 79–81, 87, 105–107 compassion, 20–21, 149–153, 163, 167 computers, 43, 46, 72, 194n38 conatus, 67 consumerism, xv, 12–15, 23–24, 142–145, 153–154 blasé, 99, 100, 133 hedonism of, 158 Orbach on, 94, 103 Sahlins on, 18–19 technological, 146–147, 164 consumption, 153 alienation and, 94–95 conspicuous, 15–18 production and, 52–53, 104 scarcity and, 18–22 convenience, 62, 70–72, 88, 122–123, 131, 144, 158, 163, 196n28 craft, 36, 157 cups, polystyrene, xv, 69, 122, 137, 139–142, 149, 187 Darwinism, social, 17 Dasein, 40, 112–114, 138, 171 Cerbone on, 191n21 death and, 163–164 Dreyfus on, 145–146 finitude of, 25–26 self-reflexivity of, 124 Sorge and, 121–126, 129–131, 141 time and, 172 Zimmerman on, 29 See also Heidegger, Martin David, Marc, 62 Descartes, René, ixv, 8–9, 32, 47, 98, 145–146, 175 on culture, 94 on freedom, 58 on nature, 59, 101–102 on nothingness, 138–139 on truth, 84 device paradigm, 58–62, 70, 87–88, 97, 105–106, 136–137 Dewdney, Christopher, 50–51, 165 dieting, 71–72 disposability, xv–xvii, 20, 51, 83, 92, 136–144, 149–152, 159, 161–162 Douglas, Mary, 6–7, 15 Dowd, Douglas, 100–101 Dreyfus, Hubert, 145–146, 190n20 Durning, Alan, 195n56 eating disorders, 106 Eckhart, Johannes, 22, 149, 150 efficiency, 17, 77–78, 93 eidos, 35 Elliot, Robert, 2 embodiment, xiv, 48–49, 131–132, 140–142, 145, 148 Heidegger and, xvii–xviii, 22–34 Nietzsche and, 27 See also body engagement, 110 Enlightenment, 47 environmentalism, xii, 146–147, 153, 163, 166, 203n26 Judd on, 3 recycling and, 83–85 epoche, 32 Euclid, 37–38 extinction, xix, 157–182 fallibility, 176–179 farming, 115, 153 art of, 110–112 cities and, 105–110 industrialization of, 61–63, 93–94, 105–106 fast food. See junk food 214 INDEX cities (continued) feasts, 11–15, 17–18, 63 See also food fetishism, technological, 61, 71 Fink, Eugen, 26–27 food, 55–88, 108 commodification of, 62–75, 79–81, 87, 105–107 frozen, 60–61 packaging of, 57, 64–69, 72, 85–86, 115 rationalization of, 73–75, 79–81, 87, 96 safe, 64–65 See also feasts; junk food Ford, Henry, 77–78 “fourfold,” 135–136, 149 Francis, Saint, 152 Frankfurt School, 95 Freud, Sigmund, 51 garbage. See waste Gelassenheit, 149, 151 General Motors (GM), xv genetics, 49 germ theory, 67–70, 90–91, 101, 119 globalization, 64, 77, 94–95, 100–101, 116, 154 global warming, 159 gluttony, 12–13 Godbey, Geoffrey, 174–175 Guha, Ramachandra, 203n26 guilt, 33–34, 48, 83...