Week 5: Old and New Waste Conversion Technologies, Italian Futurism

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Samantha MacBride

Oratory challenge:  theatrically recite excerpts from the Futurist Manifesto (abridged). Listen to and watch this video in Italian for inspiration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC1wBf-LJ20

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New York City Department of Sanitation. RFP for New and Emerging Technologies Final March 6, 2012 [Zotero]

GAIA and GreenAction. Incinerators in Disguise Case Studies of Gasification, Pyrolysis, and Plasma in Europe, Asia, and the United States (April 2006) http://www.greenaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/IncineratorsInDisguiseCaseStudyReportJune2006.pdf

Sant’Elia, Antonio. “Futurist Architecture,” in Futurism: An Anthology. Ed. Rainey, Lawrence S, Christine Poggi, and Laura Wittman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 198-201. e-reserves.

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Marinetti, F.T. “The Founding Manifesto of Futurism,” in Futurism: An Anthology. Ed. Rainey, Lawrence S, Christine Poggi, and Laura Wittman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 49-53. e-reserves.
Review resources on: http://www.energyjustice.net/incineration

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