Plastic

This note is about plastic as a material or a substance.

  • plasticrusts
  • plastiglomerates

The Plasicene

Reed, Christina. “Dawn of the Plasticene Age.” New Scientist 225, no. 3006 (2015): 28–32. https://doi.org/10/gqdrdx.

Future Fossils: Plastic Stone - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Plastiglomerate Plastiglomerate

Plastiglomerate - Journal #78 December 2016

Robertson, Kirsty. “Plastiglomerate.” CSPA Quarterly, no. 19 (2017): 38–44.

Davis, Heather M. Plastic Matter. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

Mitigation

Fighting Plastic Pollution in the Oceans - Plastic Soup Foundation

See key facts and figures here. Cf. Human Impact

Design/Art Examples

Plastisphere

Post rock project.

The Avery Review | Views From the Plastisphere: A Preface to Post-Rock Architecture

Prototyping Tomorrow: Post Post Rock - YouTube

Plastiglomerate, 2018 | VeronikaGeiger.com

References

Nielsen, Tobias D., Jacob Hasselbalch, Karl Holmberg, and Johannes Stripple. ‘Politics and the Plastic Crisis: A Review Throughout the Plastic Life Cycle’. WIREs Energy and Environment 9, no. 1 (2020): e360. https://doi.org/10.1002/wene.360.

Gabrys, Jennifer, Gay Hawkins, and Mike Michael, eds. Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013.

Liboiron, Max. Pollution Is Colonialism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

De Wolff, Kim. ‘Plastic Naturecultures: Multispecies Ethnography and the Dangers of Separating Living from Nonliving Bodies’. Body & Society 23, no. 3 (2017): 23–47. https://doi.org/10/gbxscg.

Ghosh, Koushik, and Brad H. Jones. ‘Roadmap to Biodegradable Plastics—Current State and Research Needs’. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 9, no. 18 (202AD): 6170–87. https://doi.org/10/gncz5m.

Schofield, John, Kayleigh J. Wyles, Sean Doherty, Andy Donnelly, Jen Jones, and Adam Porter. ‘Object Narratives as a Methodology for Mitigating Marine Plastic Pollution: Multidisciplinary Investigations in Galápagos’. Antiquity 94, no. 373 (2020): 228–44. https://doi.org/10/ggmkfb.

For an artistic take, this is suggestive:

Plastic Imaginaries | continent


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