The Spring 2021 Reading Club meets every other Monday at 8p ET, beginning February 1st | Zoom Link: here. You can also get a sense of our past excursions on our Are.na.
“This is our next problem”: Cleaning up from the COVID-19 response
Marc Kalina and Elizabeth Tilley
The Irradiated International
Lou Cornum
Terra Incognita
Tatiana Morin
Purity and Security: Towards A Cultural History of Plexiglass
Shannon Mattern
Beginning September 9, 2020, Trash Club’s bi-weekly book club is reading Toxic Communities by Dorceta E. Taylor. This is our reading schedule below.
You can find the reading here: Toxic Communities. We meet over Zoom, every other Wednesday at 8p ET.
In conjunction with a teardown workshop by Jasmine Soltani and Aaron Parsekian.
Maintenance and Care
Shannon Mattern
Rethinking Repair
Steven J. Jackson
In conjunction with our strange objects workshop.
Sorting Things Out
Jeremy Walker, Melinda Cooper
The Abominations of Leviticus
Mary Douglas
Special Guest: Bassem Saad
Genealogies of Resilience: From Systems Ecology to the Political Economy of Crisis Adaptation
Jeremy Walker, Melinda Cooper
Hopeful Resilience
Orit Halpern
No Entropy Cassandra 2020
Bassem Saad
Abrasive Things
Bassem Saad
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
Bringing Things to Life: Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials
Tim Ingold
Special Guest: Nabil Hassein
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation — An Argument
Sylvia Wynter
Marx and the Rift in the Universal Metabolism of Nature
John Bellamy Foster
Anatomy of an AI System
Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler
In Defense of the Poor Image
Hito Steyerl
Capitalocene, Waste, Race, and Gender
Françoise Vergès
The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy
Markus Krajewski
Made to Break
Giles Slade
American Trash
Colin Lecher
Waste is Information
Dietmar Offenhuber. Introduction & TBD Chapter
Waste is Art
Jenny Odell
Waste is Not “Matter Out of Place”
Max Liboiron