Waste. The political significance of the city’s suppressed other

Abstract

MBeneath the city’s achievement as a grand machine of accumulation of matter, in invisibility lies the vast and vague sphere of waste accumulation. In invisibility, a huge network of waste flows is possibly rewriting economies as we know them, reproducing life conditions driven by the politics of wealth. In this parallel territory, recycling is a big business for the few.

Keywords

• The Urban Invisibles
• lo Squaderno No. 35