Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic

ISBN-13: 9781138063068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 242 str.

Jennifer Gabrys; Gay Hawkins; Mike Michael

Opis

Plastic has become emblematic of economies of abundance and ecological destruction. If the post-war ‘plastics age’ was cleaner and brighter than all that preceded it, this boosterism has now become intertwined with anxiety as the burdens of accumulating plastic wastes register in environments and bodies. This innovative book investigates how plastic accumulates functions, concerns, politics, properties and more.

Recenzje

"This is a book on materiality in contemporary life. It deals with an issue that is not new, and the book itself is not hot off the press, actually it was published three years ago. However, Accumulation can be considered an interesting nutshell of the current debate about the materiality and the heterogeneous complexity of society as well as about the strategies we use to investigate and unfold it."
Dario Minervini, University of Naples

Spis treści

Introduction: From Materiality to Plasticity  Part I: Plastic Materialities  1. Plastics, Materials and Dreams of Dematerialization  2. Process and Plasticity: Printing, Prototyping and the Prospects of Plastic  Part II: Plastic Economies  3. Made to Be Wasted: PET and Topologies of Disposability  4. The Material Politics of Vinyl: How the State, Industry and Citizens Created and Transformed West Germany’s Consumer Democracy  5. Paying With Plastic: The Enduring Presence of the Credit Card  Part III: Plastic Bodies  6. The Death and Life of Plastic Surfaces: Mobile Phones  7. Reflections of an Unrepentant Plastiphobe: An Essay on Plasticity and the STS Life  8. Plasticizers: A Twenty-First Century Miasma  9. Plastics, the Environment and Human Health  Part IV: New Articulations  10. Where Does This Stuff Come From? Oil, Plastic and the Distribution of Violence  11. International Pellet Watch: Studies of the Magnitude and Spatial Variation of Chemical Risks Associated with Environmental Plastics  12. Plastic and the Work of the Biodegradable