Questions for this week: What is disposability, and how did the concept emerge? What makes an object disposable? In what ways do our political and economic systems treat people as waste? How can we better study political and economic power from the perspective of the waste of the political economy?
Readings:
- Stouffer, Lloyd. “Plastics Packaging: Today and Tomorrow.” Chicago: The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc., 1963.
- Acaroglu, Leyla. “Design for Disposability.” Disruptive Design (blog), January 3, 2018. https://medium.com/disruptive-design/design-for-disposability-962647cbcbb0
- Hawkins, Gay. “Disposability.” Discard Studies, May 21, 2019. https://discardstudies.com/2019/05/21/disposability/
- Wright, Melissa W. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global Capitalism. New York, NY: Routledge, 2006. Intro 1-6, Ch 2 23-44