OrdureAbfall

The Chamber Twentieth Century Dictionary defines ordure as:
'.....n. dirt: dung: excrement: anything unclean (fig).--adj. ordurous. (Fr.,--O. ord, foul--L. horridus, rough.) Other definitions follow.

There are categories of ordure which are common, shit for example. The subject proliferates: What are the parameters of ordure? And what is virtual ordure? What is a virtual pile of rubbish?

Anything unclean

Beginning with the most basic human endeavours we come quickly to the point of excrement; as all that which is regularly voided from the body. Survival is dependent on the ingestion of material sustenance, food, (although there are claims that it is possible to live on air), and it's intimately connected discharge of waste materials. Shit has been relegated, and tabooed. Since Thomas Crapper's invention of the water closet in the nineteenth century we deposit stools into water which are then immediately flushed away. We hardly glimpse at or have any contact with what we produce, and are conditioned to regard it as extraneous and noxious. It tends to smell offensively because the management of the human body is often perfunctory and casual. This in itself is a subject for consideration. To what extent is the body knowingly polluted? And why? Is the body polluted also by fetishised engagements with mental and physical hygiene? Can the 'body politic' ever be anything other than a polluted body? Is art a form of pollution?

Ordure is an ever present shadow signifying to all that is deemed unworthy. Unwanted, discarded debris induces choking urbanisations, smearing land and urban scapes alike. It thrives in the sway of the brutalising exploitation of natural materials and processes usually dealt with elsewhere, (where labour markets are cheap). The interchange is filled with abrasions, natural disasters, and human sacrifices. The world as a rubbish dump. Aesthetics profits from such profilgacy.

The toxicity of innumerable amplified voices inhabits the ether (aether). Bad breath.

Rosse Yael Sirb

Cassell's German - English Dictionary
Abfall (apfal), m. (--s, pl. -e) scrap, remnant; secession, (pl.) waste, refuse.
Rubbish ('rabish), s. der Abfall, Mist; (fig) der Schund (book), der Unsinn (nonsense).
Mist (mist), m. (--es, no pl.) dung, manure, muck; (fig.) rubbish.
Schund (shunt), m. (--(e)s, no pl.) trash.

For the purposes of Ordure Abfall the word secession does not appear to be relevant and has been designated as ordure, categorised as ordure.