This Symposium explores how under‐examined relations of disposability underpin socio‐ecological transformation in the Anthropocene. The Symposium makes four inventions into ongoing debates at the intersection of discard studies and planetary change. First, it illuminates how new frontiers of accumulation work to revalue discards through shifting waste/value dialectics. Second, it encourages analysis of discards not as incidental of systems and structures but as constitutive, material, processes of maintaining power. Third, it attends closely to waste and its labours in order to illuminate how accumulation is underwritten by embodied precarity. Fourth, it constructively draws out how attention to the politics of discards suggests an ethics of care that is centred on interdependence, accountability, and kinship. Together, the articles demonstrate how an engaged, global study of waste and disposability can not only render the differentiated violences of the current conjuncture visible, but also offer insight into how socio‐material relationships may be revalued.

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全球一次性时代：人类世，废物的神化


本次研讨会探讨了未被充分审视的可处置性关系如何支撑人类世的社会生态转型。研讨会将四项发明纳入废弃研究和地球变化交叉点的持续辩论中。首先，它阐明了积累的新领域如何通过转变废物/价值辩证法来重新评估废弃品的价值。其次，它鼓励对丢弃物进行分析，不要将其视为系统和结构的偶然事件，而是将其视为维持权力的构成性、物质性和过程。第三，它密切关注浪费及其劳动，以阐明积累是如何由具体的不稳定性所支撑的。第四，它建设性地指出了对丢弃物政治的关注如何表明以相互依存、责任和亲属关系为中心的护理伦理。这些文章共同展示了对浪费和可处置性的参与性全球研究不仅可以使当前形势下的差异化暴力变得可见，而且还可以深入了解如何重新评估社会物质关系。