Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1â#x80;#x82;The beach that speaks; Chapter 2â#x80;#x82;Trash familiars/Tabflab; Chapter 3â#x80;#x82;Pigs in space; Chapter 4â#x80;#x82;Million-year panic; Chapter 5â#x80;#x82;Ruinism; Chapter 6â#x80;#x82;Splinter, shard, and stone; Chapter 7â#x80;#x82;Where the hoard is; Chapter 8â#x80;#x82;Lake Carbamazepine; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it's also waste-or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled relationship with the decaying world outside ourselves. Waste focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our lives and also attempts to understand our complicated emotional and intel
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127) and index
