This is a text version of a keynote talk I was invited to give at an international symposium at York University in April 2026. I have included images of my slides that accompanied my talk. My talk was about thinking through what counts as ‘waste’, what counts as ‘work’ in what the symposium’s organizers called the ‘new global politics of sustainability’ (read more here).
Delete / Ignore: What Counts as ‘Waste’ and ‘Work’ in the New Global Politics of Disposability
