Zadoorian and the cult of the reuse

by Eleonora Anello

For the lovers of the reuse and the good fiction we suggested you an event not to be missed: Friday, September25th, the literary festival Collisioni will host in Alba (Piedmont, Italy) Michael Zadoorian, Armenian writer of Detroit, disciple of Carver. Envi.info will attend the evening to go into with the author of "Second Hand", a novel published in the United States in 2000 and immediately became a literary case and arrived in Italy last year, the junk culture.

Who are the junkers? We can speak of a real philosophy of life? This is a movement?
Perhaps none of this. Rather than a lifestyle that often becomes an obsession. Indeed the issue of reuse is closely related to environmental issues. In fact, a purchase spared helps to produce a smaller amount of waste and then is good for the nature and the environment. Besides, why buy new goods when those that we still work?

While Anneli Rufus and Kristan Lawson in "The Scavengers' Manifesto", a book that we presented in a previous post, talking about “scavenger”, Zadoorian prefers to use the term "junker", who is fascinated by frippery, from the old things, from what some call the refuse. Think instead that the objects used are imbued with a singular charm. In addition and without any doubt, bring together two worlds: the past and the present.

Nothing new for the United States, where the Garages Sale are a real tradition. In the weekend, especially in provincial areas, families exhibit everything they no longer use in the garden of the house to be sold to hardcore collectors, to lovers of vintage, to fanatics of the reuse or simply to curious that they will give a new life to the forgotten things.

The cult of the reuse against the globalization of a frenetic consumerism of the accumulation that enslaves so many people and is highly destructive to the environment promoted by a sliding book, that dealing with lightness of important themes. A cultured and refined way to do environmental communication.