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Blood and Glory

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioSeptember 11, 2017
After 9/11, the bodies at Ground Zero were made heroic; the immigrant bodies that cleaned them up, less so
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Scents of an Ending

By Mahmoud MrouehAugust 28, 2015
The #YouStink protests will either consign the Lebanese regime to the dustbin of history, or go in its place.
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Myth of the Garbage Patch

By Maya WeeksMay 22, 2015
The massive plastic trash gyre isn't an island, it's the disaster of capital circling the globe on ocean currents
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MoW Memorandum

By C. Greig Crysler and Shiloh KruparMay 15, 2015
tA prospectus for a new Museum of Waste, which hopes to inform guests and visitors of trash's intersections with capital, ecology and sovereignty.
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Bodies of Water

By JB BragerMay 12, 2015
Disappearance is not just a euphemism for state murder; it’s intrinsic to capitalism’s need for disposable classes
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City of Praise

By Sara BivigouMay 8, 2015
London’s discarded lots become holy ground
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The Grouch

By Sam KeoghMay 7, 2015
Sesame Street’s Oscar is all thinkable archetypes of the outsider, scrunched into the shape of a safe cartoon.
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