Dr. Tafat Hacohen-Bick, “I Had to Rummage through It, Rummage through It”: Literature, the Anthropocene, and the Aesthetics of Garbage,” The Locations of Value(s): Dibur Literary Journal, translated by Devra Lehman (Stanford, 2026). Foraging through an archive of secular and sacred Jewish and Hebrew texts, Hacohen-Bick examines a collection of terms — “filth,” “trash,” and “dirt” — that designate things, animals, and people stripped of value by the logic of a consumer culture in perpetual overdrive.
