[Discussion] CFP: TRASH (12/1/05; book)

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call for submissions

TRASH Alphabet City Magazine no. 11

Publication date: September 2006

Trash: ­the emptied out, used up, broken, outgrown, obsolete, lost, left behind,
remaindered, abandoned­mirrors humanity; we are defined by what we waste.

Archeologists, forensic scientists, visual artists and others treat trash as a
bounty for understanding. Because trash tracks us, it reveals our workings at
every level. Trash is inseparable from daily life­we produce it hourly­while at
the same time it articulates the underlying structures of contemporary
industrial society. In our era the volume and diversity of the worldıs trash has
grown exponentially, driven by population growth, mass production, globalizing
trade and transport, advances in materials science, and the raw purchasing power
of consumers. This trash bubble has had its consequences for health and
sustainability: trash marks the limits to our knowledge and capabilities­itıs
that with which we cannot cope. Paradoxically, this tide of trash also sustains
communities, from suburban dumpster divers to Indian ship breakers and
dump-dwellers in Bangkok or Rio, who live by daily scouring heaped refuse. Such
people are ejected from the city proper, tainted by our trash. TRASH will
illuminate the tragic scope of these problems and dig for solutions.

TRASH, the 11th of Alphabet Cityıs magazines on current topics, will be a
pocket-book hardback copublished with The MIT Press. TRASH will explore this
complex and contradictory phenomenon from a range of perspectives, including
photography, visual art, philosophy, materials science, literature, urban
design, product design, and economics, TRASH will appear September 2006. We
advise early submission, as space is limited.  Please submit your work by
December 1, 2005.

John Knechtel
director@alphabet-city.org
http://www.alphabet-city.org



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