We live in a throwaway economy. Advertising, built-in obsolescence, and undervaluing labor contribute to this system. Right-to-repair laws are pushing against this embedded pattern, with California ...

T here is much at stake in the shift from the present to the past — and so it is with Timothy Brennan’s recent Chronicle essay, “What Was Deconstruction?” In the headline’s formulation, the end of ...

I n 1990, at the Humanities Research Institute at University of California at Irvine, I found myself sitting next to Jacques Derrida at a lecture given by Ernesto Laclau. The topic was Antonio Gramsci ...

More often than not, a building’s life cycle follows a take-make-waste approach. Extracted natural resources manufactured for construction materials frequently end up as waste that winds up in ...

BALTIMORE — One sunny morning, several men and one woman wearing hard hats pick apart the insides of an old vacant rowhouse. Dust dances around what was once a living room. A rotting stairway looks as ...

Oliver Wainright of the Guardian calls for a rethink of the way we put buildings together and take them apart. "Ban Demolition" is a tag on TreeHugger because we have long argued for renovation and ...

As part of an ongoing effort to reduce waste in Palo Alto, the city will ban contractors from demolishing entire buildings by July 2020. The goal is for building materials to be reused or recycled, so ...

The year of the United States Bicentennial found French philosopher Jacques Derrida feeling rather intimidated. The University of Virginia—founded by Thomas Jefferson—had invited him to compare ...

(RNS) — On our podcast “Saved by the City,” launched back in 2021, my co-host Roxanne Stone and I had a lot to say about our evangelical Christian upbringings. We critiqued teachings we had heard ...

(RNS) — I wonder what Pope Leo X would’ve tweeted about the Reformation, had Twitter existed in the 16th century. Would he accuse John Calvin of being on a desperate search for street cred? Would he ...