Wastiary: A bestiary of waste
Michael Picard · Albert Brenchat-Aguilar · Timothy Carroll · Jane Gilbert · Nicola Miller
Jul 2023 · UCL Press
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About this ebook
Wastiary, or Bestiary of Waste, is a creative exercise that occupies letters, numbers, and symbols of Western academic language to compose a list of 35 short entries on the uncomfortable but pressing topic of waste in the contemporary world. The collection is richly illustrated with artwork, photography, collage and mixed media.
The book is a heterodox compendium of ‘beasts of waste’, playfully re-imagining the medieval treatise on various kinds of animal. It conveys the message that various forms of waste and pollution have achieved a beast-like or untameable quality, at times pungently transferring to considerations of ‘the human’, or humans treated as waste.
About the author
Michael Hennessy Picard teaches International Waste Law at the Edinburgh Law School.
Albert Brenchat-Aguilar is Lecturer (teaching) at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
Timothy Carroll is Principal Research Fellow in Anthropology at UCL.
Jane Gilbert is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at UCL.
Nicola Miller is Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at UCL.
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