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Plastic Matter Davis Heather Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the…
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Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees.
Plastic is not just any material-it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. 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
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