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"Cleanliness is a core value of societies around the globe. So much so that cleaning seems to be an inherent part of human nature and an expression of how we interact with and domesticate our environment. This book explores the concept of cleaning in its various aspects. Illustrations from various cleaning methods expand our conception of an activity that is such a big part of our daily lives. From a child sorting its toys and the meticulous work of a clockmaker to an impressive deep-clean of a ship: each process is treated with the same calm fascination while short texts add a semi-poetic dimension. The book's handy size invites readers to take it out into the world as they look at everyday processes with fresh eyes. Flipping through the pages of Cleaning is as enlightening as it is entertaining."--Supplied by publisher.
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No matter how much you fight it, dust pervades everything. It gathers in layers, adapting to the contours of things and marking the passage of time. It is also a gathering place, a random community of what has been and what is yet to be, a catalog of traces, and a set of promises: dead skin cells and plant pollen, hair and paper fibers, not to mention the dust mites who make it their home. Dust blurs the boundaries between the living and the dead, plant and animal matter, the inside and the outside, you and the world ("for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return"). Michael Marder's Dust delves into one of the most mundane and familiar phenomena, finding in it a key to thinking about existence, community, and justice today -- Inside cover flap.
Allergens --- Allergens. --- Cosmic dust --- Cosmic dust. --- Dust --- Dust. --- Particles --- Particles. --- Sweeping and dusting --- Sweeping and dusting. --- Philosophy --- Size of particles --- Clay --- Colloids --- Sand --- Soils --- Dusting --- Cleaning --- Antigens --- Interstellar matter --- Atmospheric dust --- Dust particles --- Dusts --- Air --- Pollution --- Literary theory --- Grammar, Comparative and general Particles --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Function words --- Philosophy of nature --- dust
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