[Discussion] CFP: Understanding Waste (7/22/05; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: Nate Eastman <nze2@lehigh.edu>

VERB, a new publication of the Humanities Center at Lehigh University,
is currently seeking short (< 3000 word) essays, articles, and creative
pieces on the subject of "waste," broadly defined.  Potential topics
include:

* Conspicuous consumption (including branding, planned obsolescence, 
prestige
economies, etc.,)

* Approaches to the abject (including cross-cultural attitudes to abject
material, such as garbage or sewage, as well as exclusionary practices 
related
to abject objects, groups, or individuals).

* Leisure (including readings of activities or programs conventionally
understood as wasteful).

* The consequences of waste (including the environmental, social, and
psychological costs of wasted resources, time, and people).

* Remedies for waste (including current or potential approaches for 
reducing,
recycling, or otherwise "making useful" things conventionally understood as
waste or wasted).

* Reclaiming of waste (including fine arts approaches such as found object
sculpture or found poetry, as well as politically or culturally motivated
activities such as adbusting).

* Representations of waste (including, but not limited to, those in American
popular media).

Discussions of any aspect of "waste," however, are welcome -- our goal is in
part a demonstration of the term's multivalence and extensive application.

The deadline for submissions is July 22nd, 2005. Completed pieces, works in
progress, ideas, and questions can be emailed to nze2@lehigh.edu 
(subject line:
VERB) or sent to:

	VERB, c/o Nate Eastman
	English Dept., Drown Hall, Lehigh University
	35 Sayre Drive,
	Bethlehem, PA 18015.



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