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ISBN 9781399511735 (print)

Print version: Plastics, Environment, Culture, and the Politics of Waste. First edition. Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, c2023 xx, 364 pages ISBN 9781399511735

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Contents // List of Figures vii // Notes on Contributors ix // Foreword by Cymene Howe xv // Introduction - The Petroproduct: On Plastics, Capitalism, // and Oil 1 // Tatiana Konrad // PART I Plastic Lives // 1 Plastics: What Are They Good For? 27 // Louise Dennis // 2 How Hula Hoops Changed Hygiene: From Damp-Cloth // Utopianism to Chemical Cleaning 47 // Angela Cope // 3 The Anti-Plastic City: Local Governments, Plastic Waste, // and the Undoing of the Weak Recycling Waste Regime in // the United States 68 // Lily Baum Pollans // PART II Plastic Proliferation // 4 From Plasticity to the Aesthesis of Queer Toxicity 87 // Amanda Boetzkes and Dana Feldman // 5 Microplastics in Arctic Sea Ice: A Petromodern Archive // Fever 105 // Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse // 6 Jugoplastika: Plastics and Postsocialist Realism 125 // Andrija Filipovic // 7 Failed Infrastructures, My Little Ponies, and Wadden // Plastics: The Eco-Intimacies of the MSC Zoe Container // Disaster 143 // Renee Hoogland // PART III Plastics in Art // 8 The Pioneers of Plasticraft: When Artists Found Plastics in // the United States 161 // Danielle O’Steen // 9 Plastic Intimacy: Chinese Art Making as Recycling Practice 181 // Victoria Oana Lupascu // 10 Plastic Poetics: Challenging the Epistemologies of Plastic // Waste in the Artwork of Maria Roelofsen 203 // Nathan Beck and Jeff Diamanti // 11 The Performance of Plasticity: Method Acting, Prosthetics, // and the Virtuosity of Embodied Transformation 216

// David LaRocca // PART IV Plastics in Literature // 12 Polymeric Thinking: Allison Cobb’s Plastic: An // Autobiography 241 // Lynn Keller // 13 Plastic City: Temporality, Materiality, and Waste in // Vanessa Berry’s Mirror Sydney 261 // Emily Potter and Kirsten Seale // 14 Better Learning through Plastic?: The Moby-Duck Saga and // Pedagogy 276 // Donna A. Gessell // PART V Plastics and the Future // 15 Disposable: The Dirty Word in Medical Plastics 301 // Patrick D. Murphy // 16 Eco-Fascism and Alienation: Plastics in a Post-COVID // World 325 // Sasha Adkins and Brittany Y. Davis // 17 Plastic in the Time of Impasse 338 // Mark Simpson // Index // 361

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(OCoLC)1356962493