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Plastic matter / Heather Davis

Davis, Heather, 1979- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2022

xii, 161 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Bibliography: Seite 135-153 and index

Erscheint auch als: Plastic matter / Davis, Heather (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Plastic matter / Davis, Heather (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-4780-1513-0 (hardcover); 978-1-4780-1775-2 (paperback)

978-1-4780-2237-4 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021025560

OCoLC: 1299304683     

LC 10000  | LB 86000  | LB 53000  | AR 25340  | MS 3165      Ähnliche Literatur

TP1116

668.4

LOC-SH: Plastics ; Plastics -- Environmental aspects ; Plastics industry and trade -- Social aspects

SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental) ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ Studies / General

Complicated Inheritances -- Plastic Matter -- Plasticity -- Synthetic Universality -- Plastic Media -- Queer Kin -- Plastic Futures.

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"Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material-it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic's relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic's materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by tracing the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic's saturation"--