Episode 247: More Baths and Fewer Showers

With the advent of modern plumbing, many depictions of bathrooms now feature standing showers. At a bare minimum, it’s common to have a bathtub with an added shower nozzle. Could the distinction between bathing and showering offer a practical metaphor for different approaches to the dirt and disorder of existence? What associations do we have with bathing - the luxurious imagery of some baths and the concerns of “stewing” in others - that we don’t find in showers? Ultimately, what do rapid and convenient methods of waste-disposal do for our understanding of the waste we produce as individuals and societies?