Currently Reading: Rachel Buchanan – Recycling Doctoral Waste
The offcuts, outtakes, remnants, scraps, dust and all the other intellectual waste products generated by a PhD or any other large research project.
http://journals.publishing.monash.edu/ojs/index.php/ha/article/view/ha100011/87
Buchanan references Klaus Neumann’s ‘the subversive potential of trash’
Klaus Neumann – But is it History? http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/viewFile/2095/2270
Klaus Neumann – Starting From Trash http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03149099209508456
“Many artists are working with ‘the aesthetic of detritus’, exploring rubbish to make comments on consumption, excess and climate change (Engberg 2009: 64–65). In August and September 2009, at La Trobe University’s Museum of Art, for example, Lauren Berkowitz made a garden from plants grown in takeaway food containers and Ash Keating created made sculptures from industrial waste salvaged from landfill (O’Brien et al. 2009: 23–49).” (p.11.4)
“Excavation is also an appropriate metaphor for rediscovering, recycling or uncovering the stories that are buried or discarded in footnotes.” (p.11.6)
Endnote 2: “I was influenced by John Frow’s point about aristocratic leisure being, at its core, ‘the deliberate and ostentatious wasting of time’ (Frow 2003: 27). In the collection’s introduction Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke write that waste is connected with time and history. ‘To the cultural coordinates of habits and emotion, we will have to add another: history. Waste is a product of time, since it is literally an end produce and the end of all living things. But it is a temporalizing effect, since the inevitability of waste is a repetitive and qualifying event. Events erupt and stay with us; others, as the saying goes, are consigned to history’s proverbial waste bin’ (Frow 2003: xiv).”
