What is Thwaites’s own view on the ecological and material problems facing humans in the twenty-first century?
What is Thwaites’s own view on the ecological and material problems facing humans in the twenty-first century?
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History/Environmental Studies 32
Thomas Thwaites, The Toaster Project Reading Worksheet
Answer all questions as thoroughly as possible, making direct references to the text. This worksheet contributes to SLOs 1, 2, and 3.
1. What, according to David Crowley in the Forward, is the “phantasmagoria” of commodity culture? What does Thwaites hope to accomplish with this project?
2. Describe the toaster that Thwaites wants to replicate: what does it look like, what is it made from, and why does he choose this particular item?
3. What are “the rules” of this project? Why does he decide on those particular rules?
4. Why does he need to use a sixteenth-century handbook of metallurgy instead of a modern textbook on the same subject?
5. Why is plastic a more difficult problem that metal? How does he solve that problem?
6. What are some of the big-picture ecological problems that Thwaites’s work brings to light?
7. What are some of the possible solutions to those problems that Thwaites discusses?
8. What is Thwaites’s own view on the ecological and material problems facing humans in the twenty-first century? How does he think those problems can or should be solved?
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