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Quotes by Josh LepawskyDec 2, 20183:41 pmOctober 31, 2020
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The universal machine is local

(E)ven the celebrated ‘universal machine‘ must realize itself materially, therefore locally, in order to function.–Danowski, Déborah, and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. The Ends of the World. Polity, 2017: 116.

knowledge politics by Josh LepawskyOct 3, 20189:57 amJuly 15, 2020
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What to Build With: Knowledge Politics or Truth Politics?

After giving a presentation on the research covered in my book, Reassembling Rubbish, I was asked if I had given thought to how my own ways of narrating stories about e-waste might inform public understandings […]

Quotes by Josh LepawskyOct 1, 201810:34 amOctober 31, 2020
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Facts are built

Facts are assembled by the work of people in conjunction with instruments, materials, and know-how. A house is built. So, too, is a fact. Despite decades of work in STS, it is still controversial to […]

E-waste by Josh LepawskyJul 30, 20182:06 pmNovember 29, 2019
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Think you know e-waste?

Almost everything you know about e-waste is wrong Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland Many of us think we know what electronic waste is because we wonder what to do with devices we no longer […]

Discard Studies by Josh LepawskyJul 26, 20182:31 pmOctober 31, 2020
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Changing Waste

Any system that deals with the four aspects of modern waste – tonnage, toxicity, heterogeneity, and externalization – on a large scale will change waste infrastructure and what counts as trash. — Max Liboiron

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