The Slow Violence of Planned Obsolescence

Elise Mason — 2022-09-20T05:00:00Z

Elise Mason critiques planned obsolescence as a form of slow violence. She argues for an ethic of care, rooted in Black feminist thinking and writing, to transform waste and our relationship to it.
---- Series: Urban Wastes, Present and Future “We are all entangled. And the fact that entanglement is a slow death doesn't make it any better; it in fact makes it more gruesome. And I mourn the parts of you that lost feeling today” (Gumbs 2020, pp. 103–104).
I have spent my adult life amid the

- Debates / waste, waste management, environment, consumerism, consumer goods, planned obsolescence, feminism, Black feminism, care ethics, ecology

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The Slow Violence of Planned Obsolescence