Very excited to be a part of this collection that Caren Irr has edited:
LIFE IN PLASTIC: ARTISTIC RESPONSES TO PETROMODERNITY
(forthcoming from the U of MN Press).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Caren Irr and Nayoung Kim, Concepts and Consequences of Plastic
I. The Plastic Sensorium
1. W. Dana Phillips, “Paper or Plastic?” and Other Conundrums of Environmental Change
2. Paul Morrison, Smelling Polyester
3. Loren Glass, The Album Era
4. Jane Kuenz, The Plastic You: Plastination and the Post-Mortal Self
II. The Plasticity of Genre
5. Daniel Worden, Plastic Man and Other Petrochemical Fantasies
6. Margaret Ronda, Organic Form, Plastic Forms: The Nature of Plastic in Contemporary Ecopoetics
7. Maurizia Boscagli, On the Beach: Porous Plasticity, Migration Art, and the objet trouvé of the Wasteocene
III. Plastic’s Capitalism
8. Christopher Breu, The Petrochemical Unconscious: Destructive Plasticities in Richard Powers’ Gain
9. Sean Grattan, The Impossible Figure of Oceanic Plastic
10. Crystal Bartolovich, “Refuge of Ignorance”: A Pre-History of “Plastic”
IV. Post-Plastic Futures?
11. Lisa Swanstrom, From Proto-Plastics to the Plastiglomerate: Science Fiction’s Shifting Synthetic Sensibilities
12. Philip E. Wegner, Futures in Plastic: Science Fiction, Climate Change, and the New North
13. Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Plastic’s “Untiring Solicitation”: Geographies of Myth, Corporate Alibis, and the Other-Worldliness of the Matacão
