Resources

The Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary defines Ordure as:
‘…..n. dirt: dung: excrement: anything unclean (fig).–adj. ordurous. (Fr.,–O. ord, foul–L. horridus, rough.) Other definitions follow. There are categories of ordure which are common, shit for example.
The subject proliferates: What are the parameters of ordure? And what is virtual ordure?

The Museum of Ordure invites contributions in all aspects of ordure
http://www.ordure.org

books/essays

Dominique Laporte, History of Shit, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2000 [Histoire de la merde, 1978].

Dusan I. Bjelic, The Balkans and the “History of Shit”, Eurozine 2004.

Maurice Benayoun, The Dump, 207 Hypotheses for Committing Art / The Dump 207 hypothèse pour un passage à l’acte, English/Français, Fyp Editions, 2011.

Franco Berardi “Bifo”, “Garbage”, in Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the Pathologies of the Post-Alpha Generation London: Minor Compositions, 2009, pp. 53-4.

Stuart Brisley, Beyond Reason: Ordure, London: Book Works, 2003.

Jennifer Gabrys, Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics, University of Michigan Press, 2011.

Kristoffer Gansing, Press Delete: the politics and performance of spam culture, in ISEA 2010, conference proceedings, Berlin: Revolver, 2010, pp.364-5.

Jonathan M. Katz, “Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Dirt“, National Geographic News, January 30, 2008.

Victor Margolin, “The Waste Manifesto”, in Interaction vol. 16, 4, 2009, pp. 12-15.

John Scanlan, On Garbage, London: Reaktion Books, 2005.

Michael Thompson, Rubbish Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Sergei Tertiakov, The Biography of the Object, in Literatura fakta, ed. Nikolai Chuzhak, Moscow: Federatsiia, 1929, pp. 66–70. see http://postmedialab.org/biography-object-sergei-tretiakov

Gillian Whiteley, Junk: Art and the Politics of Trash, I B Tauris, 2010.

web links

Great Pacific Garbage Patch, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

Garbage Dreams, dir. Mai Iskander, Egypt 2009 http://www.garbagedreams.com/

Slavoj Zizek, video excerpt about toilets and ideology, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ73hLQ64Ng

Jacques de Vaucanson, Canard Digérateur (or Digesting Duck) of 1739, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck

Peter Luining, http://works.ctrlaltdel.org/ (especially, MYSPAMBOX (2007), obsolete (from 2006), PC Dumpdagen (from 2004)).

Xing Danwen, disCONNEXION (2002-3) (images from Guiye)

Lu Guang, Pollution in China (2009)

Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki, various Scrapyard Challenge Workshops (from 2003)

Garnet Hertz, The Dead Media Research Lab (2009)

Quantified Toilets, http://quantifiedtoilets.com/