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		<title>Upcoming Talk: “Visualizing Vapors: The Shift from Smell to Smoke in Defining Air Quality”</title>
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		<title>Plastic Pollution: Terrible &amp; Charismatic Waste- Upcoming talks by Max Liboiron</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trash Talk Lecture: Terrible and Charismatic Waste Max Liboiron Thursday, February 9, 6:00 pm Sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology &#38; Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of Natural History Geological Lecture Hall (24 Oxford St., Cambridge). The lecture will be followed by a public reception at the Peabody Museum (11 Divinity Ave.). More details &#8230; <a href="http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/plastic-pollution-terrible-charismatic-waste-upcoming-talks-by-max-liboiron/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discardstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10243283&amp;post=1918&amp;subd=discardstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric M. Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;From a recovered pillow to a gallery installation, from a home-made costume to classroom educational materials, creative reuse includes all projects that incorporate materials that would otherwise be thrown away. Folks who find materials at SCRAP are teachers, artists, crafters, and designers who transform what could have been discarded into something with new value.&#8221; From &#8230; <a href="http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/scrap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discardstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10243283&amp;post=1908&amp;subd=discardstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Culutre of Food Waste Data: Theaters of Proof</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Max Liboiron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of discard issues are about scale. Scale is expressed in functions of measurement or computation, yet scale is more than a quantitative sum. Scale is always relative (&#8220;bigger,&#8221; &#8220;smaller,&#8221; &#8220;less than,&#8221; &#8220;twice as much,&#8221; &#8220;a quarter of&#8221;), and therefore relational. So scale is not merely about being big or small. At different scales, &#8230; <a href="http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/visual-culutre-of-food-waste-data-theaters-of-proof/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discardstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10243283&amp;post=1895&amp;subd=discardstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seduction of the instantaneous</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric M. Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something to be said for deep engagement.  I agree with Wolfgang Iser, the literary theorist and co-founder of the sub-discipline of literary anthropology, who argued passionately that focused engagement with a text can truly transform the reader (see The Act of Reading).  Although Iser was mostly concerned with works of literature, his theory makes sense with &#8230; <a href="http://discardstudies.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/seduction-of-the-instantaneous/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=discardstudies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10243283&amp;post=1885&amp;subd=discardstudies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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