The Use and Abuse of Compost

IF 0.4 3区文学 0 LITERATURE

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI:10.5325/complitstudies.60.3.0485

Eva-Lynn Jagoe

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Abstract

abstract:Food and bodies die and decompose in ways that can contribute to a cycle of regeneration through compost. Late modernity functions as a discard culture, however, and this process of life and death is often broken or interrupted. This article analyzes the reappearance of compost as a solution to waste in the language of entrepreneurs, scientists, and scholars who assert their relationship to it. In these discourses, the multiple species that perform the cycle of death and life are put to work on yet another frontier of capitalism for the purpose of profit and accumulation. Compost is fast becoming a greenwashed commodity with uses both as a new technology and as an ideology that centers the human, much as it claims to cherish the nonhuman. This analysis focuses on the technologization of compost; funeral practices and human corpse composting; and the use of composting as a metaphor in recent scholarship.

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堆肥的使用和滥用

摘要：食物和身体的死亡和分解方式可以通过堆肥促进再生循环。然而，晚期现代性是一种被抛弃的文化，这种生与死的过程往往被打破或中断。本文用企业家、科学家和学者的语言分析了堆肥作为废物解决方案的再现，他们断言自己与堆肥的关系。在这些话语中，执行死亡和生命循环的多个物种被置于资本主义的另一个前沿，以利利和积累。堆肥正在迅速成为一种绿色商品，它既是一种新技术，也是一种以人类为中心的意识形态，就像它声称珍惜非人类一样。本分析的重点是堆肥技术；丧葬习俗和尸体堆肥；以及在最近的学术研究中使用堆肥作为隐喻。

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期刊介绍： Comparative Literature Studies publishes comparative articles in literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural and literary relations within and beyond the Western tradition. It brings you the work of eminent critics, scholars, theorists, and literary historians, whose essays range across the rich traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. One of its regular issues every two years concerns East-West literary and cultural relations and is edited in conjunction with members of the College of International Relations at Nihon University. Each issue includes reviews of significant books by prominent comparatists.