Introduction | Toxic Relationships
Introductory chapter to the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
Introductory chapter to the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
Chapter 2 of the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
Chapter 3 of the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
Chapter 4 of the virtual exhibition Toxic Relationships: Uncovering the Worlds of Hazardous Waste.
In this chapter of their virtual exhibition “‘Commanding, Sovereign Stream’: The Neva and the Viennese Danube in the History of Imperial Metropolitan Centers,” the authors discuss similarities and differences in the history of water supply, pollution, and waste management in St. Petersburg and Vienna.
This German-language version of Sabine Wilke’s virtual exhibition features short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
This virtual exhibition features, in English translation, short excerpts from German-language literary texts that address human-nature entanglements. The aim is to show how literature can contribute to understanding and problematizing the relation between humans and nonhuman nature. What aspects of human-nature relations are addressed, at what point in literary history, and how are they shaped poetically? For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.
This chapter from the virtual exhibition “The Life of Waste” discusses the origins of waste, our methods of consumption and the consequent production of waste, and how we learn to waste.
This chapter from the virtual exhibition “The Life of Waste” sheds light on what people think waste is and is not, the cultural and normative conceptions of waste, and forms and landscapes of waste.
This chapter from the virtual exhibition “The Life of Waste” considers the myriad practices of managing waste, such as burning, burying, discarding, disposal, reuse, and recycling.