Languages Of Waste Matter And Form In Our Garb-Age Analysis
Languages of Waste: Matter and Form in our Garb-age
Abstract: In the context of material ecocriticism which turns to explore the entanglements and networks of human and nonhuman elements, or as stated by Oppermann that ecological postmodernism contest the distinction between biological and chemical by endowing the matter whether organic or inorganic internal and external meanings, this paper raises a number of issues concerning the waste. The paper embarks from Barad and Bennett’s material theory and then reviews it in the postmodern theoretical ground, at last review the articles dealing with the topic of waste in order to find how waste can be reconsidered in terms of aesthetics and literary forms.
Key words: material ecocriticism, waste, object, subject, nature Ecocriticism has not only brought us back nature, but also opened up a large field of inquiry that retreats from human exceptionalism and stereotypical images of nature as a state of pure wilderness opposed to culture. Material ecocriticism, as established by Serenella Iovino among others, more pointedly moves sway from postmodern and linguistic constructions to emphasize the agency and performativity of matter. In this context, it points to the entanglements and networks of human and nonhuman elements (or agents). In the words …show more content…
And for Foucault, intentionality is a property of a nexus of relations. Waste becomes a powerful type of matter which needs to be studied in its relationality. It is perhaps the matter which most “surprise[s]” us (Pyyhtinen and Tamminen 140), because we underestimate its inherent agency (tending to perceive it as a simple extension of our own) and harbor fallacious fantasies that it crease to act on us once it has been swept out of
Abstract: In the context of material ecocriticism which turns to explore the entanglements and networks of human and nonhuman elements, or as stated by Oppermann that ecological postmodernism contest the distinction between biological and chemical by endowing the matter whether organic or inorganic internal and external meanings, this paper raises a number of issues concerning the waste. The paper embarks from Barad and Bennett’s material theory and then reviews it in the postmodern theoretical ground, at last review the articles dealing with the topic of waste in order to find how waste can be reconsidered in terms of aesthetics and literary forms.
Key words: material ecocriticism, waste, object, subject, nature Ecocriticism has not only brought us back nature, but also opened up a large field of inquiry that retreats from human exceptionalism and stereotypical images of nature as a state of pure wilderness opposed to culture. Material ecocriticism, as established by Serenella Iovino among others, more pointedly moves sway from postmodern and linguistic constructions to emphasize the agency and performativity of matter. In this context, it points to the entanglements and networks of human and nonhuman elements (or agents). In the words …show more content…
And for Foucault, intentionality is a property of a nexus of relations. Waste becomes a powerful type of matter which needs to be studied in its relationality. It is perhaps the matter which most “surprise[s]” us (Pyyhtinen and Tamminen 140), because we underestimate its inherent agency (tending to perceive it as a simple extension of our own) and harbor fallacious fantasies that it crease to act on us once it has been swept out of