Notes on Cool: The Temporal Politics of Friendly Monsters and the E-waste Aesthetic

Abstract

Notes on Cool: The Temporal Politics of Friendly Monsters and the E-waste Aesthetic by Sabine LeBel- nanocrit.com. Two compelling examples of e-waste, with the aim to educate and inform, albeit using different visual tactics than Burtynsky or Hugo, are WEEE Man and the film WALL-E. WEEE Man is a giant sculpture in the United Kingdom made entirely from e-waste. In WALL-E, e-waste is an important part of the devastated wastescapes of abandoned future earth. Both WEEE Man and WALL-E represent garbage and e-waste in terms of scale.

Keywords

• time
• aesthetics
• e-waste
• monsters
• cool
• waste
• garbage
• design
• environmental planning
• art