The Things We Throw Away
Andrew O’Hagan: The Garbage of England, 24 May 2007
“... when it comes to it, looking after the bins. It’s how we used to think. “Sovereignty,” Georges Bataille wrote, “is the freedom to waste.” At festivals, at Christmas, and every day, we waste, we give things away, that is what seemed normal to us.’ The area around the waterway in Bristol has been reinvented. The architects have had a field ... ”