Description: Basura considers the efforts of artists, writers, and designers for whom waste is a means to withstand cultural erasure.
Review Quotes:
Cultural archeology at its best, and an indispensable reflection upon the excretion frenzy that takes hold of Spanish contemporary reality, culture, and thought. Amago's incisive and creative unearthing of the residues and waste products of democratic Spain sheds revealing light on the reasons behind the country's uneven path towards modernization, but, even more important, provides the reader with new tools to engage with the 'ontology of trash' in all its philosophical, social, political, and cultural complexity.
--Maite Zubiaurre, UCLA