Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste

Konrad, T. (Ed.), 2023. Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. This book covers the following: List of Figures - Notes on Contributors - Foreword S Cymene Howe - Introduction - The Petroproduct: On Plastics, Capitalism, and oil by Tatiana Konrad - PART I Plastic Lives - 1. Plastics: What Are They Good For? By Louise Dennis - 2. How Hula Hoops Changed Hygiene: From Damp-Cloth Utopianism to Chemical Cleaning by Angela Cope - 3. The Anti-Plastic City: Local Governments, Plastic Waste, and the Undoing of the Weak Recycling Waste Regime in the United States by Lily Baum Pollans - PART II Plastic Proliferation - From Plasticity to the Aesthesis of Queer Toxicity by Amanda Boetzkes and Dana Feldman - 5. S Microplastics Arctic Sea Ice: A Petromodern Archive Fever by Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse - 6. Jugoplastika: Plastics and Postsocialist Realism by Andrija Filipovic - 7. Failed Infrastructures, My Little Ponies, and Wadden Plastics: The Eco- Intimacies of the MSC Zoe Container Disaster by Renee Hoogland - PART III Plastics in Art - 8. The Pioneers of Plasticraft: When Artists Found Plastics in the United States by Danielle O'Steen - 9. Plastic Intimacy: Chinese Art Making as Recycling Practice by Victoria Oana Lupascu - 10. Plastic Poetics: Challenging the Epistemologies of Plastic Waste in the Artwork of Maria Roelofsen by Natban Beck and Jeff Diamanti - 11. The Performance of Plasticity: Method Acting, Prosthetics, and the Virtuosity of Embodied Transformation by David LaRocca - PART IV Plastics in Literature - 12. Polymeric Thinking: Allison Cobb's Plastic: An Autobiography by Lynn Keller - 13. Plastic City: Temporality, Materiality, and Waste in Vanessa Berry's Mirror Sydney by Emily Potter and Kirsten Seale - 14. Better Learning through Plastic?: The Moby-Duck Saga and Pedagogy by Donna A. Gessell - PART V Plastics and the Future - 15. Disposable: The Dirty Word in Medical Plastics by Patrick D. Murphy - 16. Eco-Fascism and Alienation: Plastics in a Post-COVID World by Sasha Adkins and Brittany Y. Davis - 17. Plastic in the Time of Impasse by Mark Simpson.

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