Waste Stories: Detritus, Radical Politics, and Class in the 21st Century

  • Rachele Dini (Speaker)

    Activity: Talk or presentation for an academic audience › Invited talk for an academic audience

    Description

    Talk to Birkbeck's English literature postgraduate students (who come from across the UK) about my first book (on waste) and my forthcoming monograph (on appliances). I used these projects as a springboard for discussing the rhetoric of waste and fascist nostalgia to examine precarity, the devaluation of the humanities, and classism in contemporary culture.
    Period30 Jan 2020
    Held atBirkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
    Degree of RecognitionNational

    Keywords

    • waste
    • class
    • contemporary politics
    • fascism
    • Donald Trump
    • electricity
    • appliances
    • precarity
    • adjunctification
    • higher education
    • humanities