| Introduction | 8 |
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| More Fluff
Karilee Fuglem's photographs reveal complex worlds within dust bunnies. | 10 |
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| Streets of Trash
Toronto trash Flâneur Lisa Rochon wanders the streets, shooting as she goes. | 16 |
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| Uncle Fernando's Garbage Triptych
Priscila Uppal's poems portray her uncle, known in Brasilia as "Dr. Garbage." | 32 |
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| Pliez
Susan Coolen collects paper airplanes from the streets of Montreal and other cities. | 38 |
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| Sad Chairs
Gay Hawkins wonders what happens when wasted things hang around, refusing to go away. Photos by Bill Keaggy. | 50 |
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| Trashed Space
Nina-Marie Lister photographs urban waste spaces and makes the case for their reinvention. | 62 |
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| In | Out
Braden King, Gariné Torossian, and Tigran Xmalian sort junk in post-Soviet Armenia | 76 |
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| The Harbingers
In Nyla Matuk's fiction the year is 2029 and something is awry in China's zero-waste cities. Drawings by Derek Sullivan. | 90 |
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| Recycling
Edward Burtynsky photographs recycling facilities in China and Ontario. | 102 |
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| Message in a Bottle
Mass-scale trash is the outcome of our economic system, argues Heather Rogers. | 112 |
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| Airspace
A photographic report by Pierre Bélanger describes the ecologies and economies of landfilling in Michigan. | 132 |
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| Media in the Dump
Jennifer Gabrys reports on the residues from our digital devices. | 156 |
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| Dr. Strangelove Dr. Strangelove
Kristan Horton recreates--in tiny trash assemblages--frames from the Kubrick classic. | 166 |
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| The Ethical Artifact: On Trash
Trash marks the limits of knowledge, argues Barry Allen. | 196 |
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| Prototypes
Brain Jungen dissects and reassembles consumer products in order to simulate more ancient forms. | 214 |
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| Utopia Gleaners
Gleaners help us find the utopian energies of what has been cast aside, says Tina Kendall. | 222 |
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| Sound Suits
Nick Cave's wearable artworks are built from found materials and make sounds when animated by the wearer. | 230 |
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| Refuse/Refused
In Priya Sarukkai Chabria's poems the discarded--a worm, an old woman, a shard of mirror--speak. | 238 |
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| The Missing Daughters of Juarez
Rachel Cassells travels to Juarez to photograph the mothers of murdered Mexican girls. Interviews and translations by Esteban Sheridan. | 246 |
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| Plastikos
Susana Reisman photographs the vacuum-formed packaging used to display consumer goods. | 272 |
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| Slough
A poem by Mani Rao explores this corporeal premise: "The new skins you grow are slough." | |
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| Contributors | 282 |
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| Media in the Dump
Jennifer Gabrys reports on the residues from our digital devices. | 156 |
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