W aste, garbage, surplus. Art and cultural imaginaries in the age of hyperconsumption. Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Thursday, November 12, 2026. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Friday, November 13, 2026. Waste, garbage, and surplus are concrete manifestations of the logic of the residual, understood as symbolic, political, and economic operations that determine what is left out of place, devalued, and rendered invisible. Mass consumer society generates garbage at an exponential rate and on a global scale. In a world driven by the production of objects with a perishable utility or, in the worst cases, with no specific functionality, there is no place without waste—domestic, industrial, digital, technological, nuclear, chemical, textile, etc. From the outskirts . . . → En lire plus