Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-318) and index.

Bataille, Stam, and locations of trash -- Rancière: aesthetics, its mésententes and discontents -- The out-of-place scene of trash -- Globalization's dumping ground: the case of Trafigura -- Agency and the mosquito: Mitchell and Chakrabarty -- Trashy women: Karmen Gei, L'Oiseau Rebelle -- Trashy women, fallen men: Fanta Nacro's "Puk Nini" and La nuit de la vérité -- Opening the distribution of the sensible: Kimberly Rivers and Trouble the water -- Abderrahmane Sissako's Bamako and the image: trash in its materiality -- The counter-archive for a new postcolonial order: O Herói and Daratt -- Nollywood and its masks: Fela, Osuofia in London, and Butler's Assujetissement -- Trash's last leaves: Nollywood, Nollywood, Nollywood.