Publication Type
Blog Post
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
3-2016
Abstract
Here’s a story that sounds like a joke with a foul punch line. One day in 1939, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, and two women walk along the shore south of Los Angeles. The weather is beautiful, the beach is empty, and Shakespeare is debated. Then the group realizes that something’s funny about the beach. As Huxley put it in the essay, “Like Hyperion to a Satyr,” they are suddenly walking among “ten million emblems and mementoes of Modern Love … Malthusian flotsam and unspeakable jetsam.”
Discipline
Environmental Policy
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Publication
The Awl
Citation
RANDLE, Sayd.
The effluent society. (2016). The Awl.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/108
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https://www.theawl.com/2016/03/the-effluent-society/