The Future of Post-Human Waste: Towards a New Theory of Uselessness and Usefulness

Name: The Future of Post-Human Waste: Towards a New Theory of Uselessness and Usefulness
Brand: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
SKU: 9781443841900
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By (author): Peter Baofu

Is waste (or trash) really so useless that, as William Faulkner once wrote, [r]ead everythingtrash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. . . . If it is good, youll find out. If its not, throw it out the window? (TE 2012)Interestingly, this critical view of waste (or trash) can be contrasted with an opposing observation by Isaac Bashevis Singer, who once famously said that the waste basket is the writers best friend. (TE 2012a)Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones as will be discussed in the book), waste, in relation to both uselessness and usefulness is neither possible or impossible, nor desirable or undesirable to the extent that the respective ideologues on different sides would like us to believe.Of course, this challenge to the opposing views of waste does not imply that waste has no practical value, or that those interdisciplinary fields (related to waste) like epidemiology, global warming, waste management, low-carbon economics, ethical consumerism, resource recovery, freeganism, environmental justice, space debris, and so on are unimportant. Of course, neither of these extreme views is reasonable.Rather, this book offers an alternative, better way to understand the future of waste, especially in the dialectic context of uselessness and usefulnesswhile learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them or integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other. More specifically, this book offers a new theory (that is, the transfigurative theory of waste) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way.If successful, this seminal project is to fundamentally change the way that we think about waste in relation to uselessness and usefulness from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what the author originally called its post-human fate. See more

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Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 24 Oct 2012
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781443841900

About Peter Baofu

Dr Peter Baofu is the author of 62 new theories in 54 books (as of July 2012) to provide a visionary challenge to conventional wisdom in all fields of knowledge (i.e. the social sciences the formal sciences the natural sciences and the humanities) with the aim for a unified theory of everything together with numerous visions of the mind nature society and culture in future history.As a polymath he is known for his pioneering works on post-capitalism authoritarian liberal democracy post-democracy transfigurative waste inquisitive culinary art panoramic transportation cyclical-progressive migration multifold history reflective criminology transcendent architecture interactive semantics transdisciplinary performing arts interventive-reshaping geography complex data analysis creational chemistry comparative-impartial literature supersession computing detached gambling multilateral acoustics metamorphic humor heterodox education post-human mind games post-Earth geology substitutive religion post-cosmology contrarian personality post-ethics multifaceted war and peace post-humanity critical-dialectic formal science combinational organization hyper-sexual body law reconstruction comprehensive creative thinking hyper-martial body multilogical learning contingent urban planning selective geometry contrastive advantages ambivalent technology the post-post-Cold-War era post-civilization transformative aesthetic experience synthetic information architecture contrastive mathematical logic dialectic complexity after-postmodernity sophisticated methodological holism post-human space-time existential dialectics unfolding unconsciousness floating consciousness hyper-spatial consciousness and other visions. Dr Baofu earned an entry to the list of prominent and emerging writers in Contemporary Authors (2005) and another honorary entry in The Writers Directory (2007)and was also interviewed on television and in newspapers about his original ideas. He was a US Fulbright Scholar in the Far East. He has taught as a professor at different universities in Western Europe the Caucasus the Middle East the Balkans Central Asia South Asia North America and Southeast Asia. He has finished more than 5 academic degrees including a PhD from the world-renowned MIT and was a summa cum laude graduate.