{"id":2252,"date":"2010-04-23T23:03:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T06:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2010-04-23T23:03:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T06:03:21","slug":"waste-stream-philia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/04\/23\/waste-stream-philia\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste stream philia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an opportunity to tour the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CFB_Esquimalt\">Canadian Forces Base in Esquimalt<\/a> today. It&#8217;s a two-hour 3-kilometer walking tour, full of history and heritage (one part of the base is from the late 19th\/ early 20th century, featuring fully intact, carefully rehabbed brick buildings) and new initiatives (they&#8217;re finishing a building which will be the continent&#8217;s second-largest industrial Fleet Maintenance Facility &#8211; only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boeing.com\/\">Boeing<\/a>&#8216;s is bigger). We saw the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.forces.gc.ca\/winnipeg\/0\/0-s_eng.asp\">HMCS Winnipeg<\/a>, which features a sign next to the helicopter hangar door: &#8220;Winnipeg International Airport &#8211; Elev. 25 feet,&#8221; and we saw one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/background\/cdnsubs\/chicoutimitimeline.html\">horrible subs<\/a> Canada bought from the UK, still in dry dock six years later.<\/p>\n<p>But something else I saw really grabbed my attention: a large pile of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The other day, thinking about a public art project, it occurred to me that one could do something pretty interesting with material destined for the waste stream &#8211; I was thinking about this in relation to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/04\/21\/pulchraphilia\/\">the &#8220;philias&#8221; I wrote about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, here&#8217;s a favorite picture from today&#8217;s tour &#8211; not <em>yet<\/em> &#8220;garbage,&#8221; but it sure wouldn&#8217;t be difficult to find stuff as sculptural as this in any waste stream:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" title=\"hoses\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_Rg-tSGYurlI\/S9KBf1zde8I\/AAAAAAAABBY\/ObsciIWVkWk\/s640\/CIMG0702.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">~<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It&#8217;s not exactly what most people would take a photo of while touring a military base, but I was riveted by both the pile&#8217;s plasticity and by what the inert hoses, heaped next to the hard geometry of the building and the white cage-like tower, evoked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Another photo:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" title=\"hoses 2\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_Rg-tSGYurlI\/S9KBchKxUWI\/AAAAAAAABBU\/IaxCMh3n2O8\/s640\/CIMG0699.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an opportunity to tour the Canadian Forces Base in Esquimalt today. It&#8217;s a two-hour 3-kilometer walking tour, full of history and heritage (one part of the base is from the late 19th\/ early 20th century, featuring fully intact, carefully rehabbed brick buildings) and new initiatives (they&#8217;re finishing a building which will be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1823,678],"tags":[15515,15514,1813],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-canada","category-ideas","tag-canadian_forces","tag-cfb_esquimalt","tag-military"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}