https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Man-the-Oblivious-Waste-Creator https://booksandideas.net/Man-the-Oblivious-Waste-Creator 2019-01-14T07:00:00Z text/html en Sylvie Lupton Society History environmentalism Institut français garbage <p>Modern man produces increasing quantities of waste. But his relationship with refuse has changed. What does this waste—that we attempt to conceal or distance ourselves from—reveal about our societies? Do we control the waste we seek to manage or does it elude us?</p>