Description
Book SynopsisThe production of a human wastea -- or more precisely, wasted lives, the a superfluousa populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts -- is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side--effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity.
Trade Review"This is a rather brilliant, dense and chaotic meditation on ideas of waste in our time of what Bauman terms "liquid modernity" ... A sparkling and highly suggestive read."
The GuardianTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vi
Introduction 1
1 In the beginning was design
Or the waste of order-building 9
2 Are there too many of them?
Or the waste of economic progress 34
3 To each waste its dumping site
Or the waste of globalization 63
4 Culture of waste 94
Notes 134
