Profane WasteGregory R. Miller & Co., 2006 - 65 pages Jewels buried in a grave, cigarettes smoked in $100 bills, champagne poured into a bathtub--these perverse, irrational acts are also somehow thrilling. Profane Waste explores the workings of an unacknowledged taboo: the taboo against willful dissipation. Dana Hoey, an acclaimed photographer appearing here in her first book, presents a series of 30 haunting images that are at once ultra-real and uncanny. Bestselling biographer and social critic Gretchen Rubin uses lucid analysis and explosive examples--the actions of Rauschenberg, Jesus, Ivan Boesky, Thoreau and Goebbels, among others--to demonstrate the power of the title concept. Together, Hoey's photographs and Rubin's provocative arguments create a shock of recognition: they lay bare intentions that stand outside the conventional goals of acquisition and accumulation. |
Table des matières
THE TABOO AGAINST WASTE | 3 |
ORDINARY WASTE AND PROFANE WASTE | 15 |
WASTE THAT IS NOT PROFANE WASTE | 23 |
SPECIES OF PROFANE WASTE HEEDLESS WASTE | 39 |
SPECIES OF PROFANE WASTE DEFIANT WASTE | 47 |
SPECIES OF PROFANE WASTE DENYING WASTES | 59 |
CONCLUSION | 63 |
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