Public spectacles

Ramez Bahige Maluf, Jean Antoine Nollet and Experimental Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth Century France, Ph.D. dissertation. University of Oklahoma, 1985 John Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th 18th Centuries (University of California Press, 1979), 279-289 and 352-362 Simon Schaffer, Natural Philosophy and Public Spectacle in the Eighteenth Century, History of Science 21, 1983, 1-43 Geoffrey V. Sutton, Science for a Polite Society (Westview, 1995), 223-240. 

Schaffer, Simon. Natural Philosophy and Public Spectacle in the Eighteenth... 

After the media frenzy that followed the barge s voyage, the boat was forced to incinerate the MSW in a Brooklyn facility and bury the ashes in the same landfill from which the waste began its journey. This public spectacle served as a launch pad for environmentalists everywhere. The Mobro 4000 was an icon of America s excessive consumption and waste, and helped to push hundreds of communities to increase recycling efforts (see Figure 1). This event, coupled with other environmental issues of the time, served as a springboard for public involvement in environmentalism. Interest in waste stream, air pollution, water pollution, and other environmental health issues were never before on public minds to this extent. 

Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660-1750 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992) Simon Schaffer, Natural philosophy and public spectacle in the eighteenth century, History of Science 21, 1983, 1-43. 

J. V. Golinski, A noble spectacle phosphorus and the public cultures of science in the early Royal Society , Isis, 1989, 80, 11-39. 

The ancient Romans had violent spectacles that kept the public distracted, engaged, and entertained. They provided the continued violence needed by the warrior state. Are we less bloodthirsty than the Romans because we serve up virtual rather than live spectacles In the process of raising the level of fictional violence in America, we have eased the access to fantasy far beyond the Roman dreams. Never before has a nation s mind s eyes been so filled with full color images of violence as we have today. 

To return to the bad image of plastics in France, it is fed with the spectacle of littering in the open air, especially on the beaches or in landfills, whether wild or public. It is tme, up to now, that the performance of our collection systems has been poor, that landfills are misused and that our behaviors still leave something to be desired though, in rich countries, we have made tremendous progress. 

The fateful year 1936 also witnessed the deaths of Valle-Inclan and Unamuno. The latter exited the public stage with a last spectacle the 166... 

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