Notes on Cool: The Temporal Politics of Friendly Monsters and the E-waste Aesthetic

• Main Author: Sabine LeBel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York City College of Technology 2015-06-01
• Series: NANO
• Subjects: time; aesthetics; e-waste; monsters; cool; waste; garbage; design; environmental planning; art
• Online Access: https://nanocrit.com/issues/issue7/notes-cool-temporal-politics-friendly-monsters-and-e-waste-aesthetic

Notes on Cool: The Temporal Politics of Friendly Monsters and the E-waste Aesthetic by Sabine LeBel- nanocrit.com. Two compelling examples of e-waste, with the aim to educate and inform, albeit using different visual tactics than Burtynsky or Hugo, are WEEE Man and the film WALL-E. WEEE Man is a giant sculpture in the United Kingdom made entirely from e-waste. In WALL-E, e-waste is an important part of the devastated wastescapes of abandoned future earth. Both WEEE Man and WALL-E represent garbage and e-waste in terms of scale.