In the acknowledgements for her book Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers acknowledges Professor David Harvey, Marxist social theorist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, “who let me sit in on many of his classes while I was writing this book. His superb discussion of political economy deeply informs my analysis.”
Here is a great little RSA Animate based on one of his lectures at RSA in April 2010: David Harvey – The Crises of Capitalism
In this RSA Animate, renowned academic David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that really could be responsible, just, and humane?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0
I saw David Harvey speak about Marxist theory at Liverpool Biennial with Alfredo Jaar and What, How & for Whom (WHW) as part of The Marx Lounge in conversation series of talks. http://liverpoolbiennial.co.uk/programmes/festival…
A very compelling speaker and key thinker in political theory, I can see how useful his lectures will have been for Rogers as she identifies from the outset how rubbish is politicised and intrinsically linked to capitalism.
