Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of illustrations IntroductionThe commodityWaste and recuperationHuman wasteSymbols of transience and changeThe case for the novel, and for descendants of the avant-gardeFrom scavenging to window-shoppingChapter overviewsThe case for pursuing "this unattractive occupation" Chapter One In search of an epiphany: Redeeming waste and irrupting into the everyday"The enigmatic side of beings and things": Giorgio de Chirico's Hebdomeros "Quite unexpected,... Mehr