Davis Plastic Matter

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2237-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 173 Seiten

Reihe: Elements

Heather Davis traces plastic’s relations to geology, media, race, and biology to show how plastic and all other matter has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Heather

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Complicated Inheritances vii
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Plastic Matter 1
1. Plasticity 21
2. Synthetic Universality 39
3. Plastic Media 63
4. Queer Kin 81
Conclusion: Plastic Futures 103
Notes 109
Bibliography 135
Index 155

Über Autor(innen)

Heather Davis is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media at The New School, editor of Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada, and coeditor of Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments, and Epistemologies.