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Dross City
Author(s) -
Kallipoliti Lydia
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1169
Subject(s) - artificiality , dross , appeal , engineering , law , forensic engineering , political science , philosophy , chemistry , epistemology
Dross or techno‐junk is threatening to take over and consume our cities, as exemplified by the Chinese city of Giuyu, a renowned recipient of electronic and toxic waste. Rather than reject dross as an unwanted and unsightly by‐product of urban life, Lydia Kallipoliti invokes a change in approach that calls for the need to engage with techo‐excrements, endorsing Slavoj Žižek's appeal for ‘more artificiality and less nature’. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.