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to refer to a repurposed textile material produced from old rags and tailors’ clippings. It is said that a West Yorkshire mill-owner, inspired by a chance encounter with a horse saddle stuffed with shredded tunics, “invented” shoddy in 1813. Industrial-style
recycling was born alongside the development of machinery for the sorting, grinding, scouring and baling of old, used, usable wool. Over the next hundred and fifty years, wool shoddy –and permutations thereof – was widely used in the production of new suits,
slaves’ clothing, sofa stuffing, and agricultural fertilizer. </span><span style="color:rgb(29,27,17)">People, machines, and landscapes were reconfigured so as best to recycle waste and other leftovers into plentiful “new” raw materials. </span><span style="color:rgb(29,27,17)">From
old clothes came new technologies of survival, coverings for the human skin, and ingredients to transform barren soil into lush fields of rhubarb, beer hops, and invasive weeds. </span><span style="color:rgb(29,27,17)">This paper examines technological and
natural repurposing through analysis of the historical production, consumption, and disposal of a quasi-object defined by its reuse.</span></span></p>
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Rose Shell, a historian of science and technology, is the Leo Marx Career Development Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, and an affiliate in Comparative Media Studies. Shell studies the production, use, and transformation of often-marginalized
artifacts, located at the interstices of the found and the fabricated.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium"><span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium">Her current book project is a historical and
theoretical investigation into the epistemology of reuse, in which objects of analysis include old clothes, decomposing vegetable matter, and other artifacts of strategic repurposing. Shell holds an MA in American Studies (Yale), and earned a PhD in the History
of Science (Harvard), after which she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Recent works include the article “Cinehistory and Experiments on Film,” published in Journal of Visual Culture (2012) and the book</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium"><i>Hide
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