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Davis, Heather

 
9781478017752: Plastic Matter (Elements)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1478017759 ISBN 13: 9781478017752
Verlag: MNG University Presses, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in 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 mapping 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.

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Verlag
MNG University Presses
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1478017759
ISBN 13 
9781478017752
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
161
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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