{"product_id":"life-in-plastic-artistic-responses-to-petromodernity-hardback-9781517909871","title":"Life in Plastic; Artistic Responses to Petromodernity (Hardback) 9781517909871","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLife in Plastic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eArtistic Responses to Petromodernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCaren Irr (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517909871\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 25 black \u0026amp; whilte illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.534 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"A valuable contribution to environmental cultural criticism, Caren Irr’s collection \u003ci\u003eLife in Plastic \u003c\/i\u003ealso speaks strongly to the historical materialist question that we inherit from Marx and Engels: How does our consciousness, our culture, express our plastic life and the mode of production that gives rise to it?\" -\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince at least the 1960s, plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life. They are undeniably utopian-wondrously innovative, cheap, malleable, durable, and convenient. Yet our proliferating use of plastics has also triggered catastrophic environmental consequences. Plastics are piling up in landfills, floating in oceans, and contributing to climate change and cancer clusters. They are derived from petrochemicals and enmeshed with the global oil economy, and they permeate our consumer goods and their packaging, our clothing and buildings, our bodies and minds. Plastic reshapes our cultural and social imaginaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith impressive breadth and compelling urgency, the essays in \u003ci\u003eLife in Plastic\u003c\/i\u003e examine the arts and literature of the plastic age. Focusing mainly on post-1960s North America, the collection spans a wide variety of genres, including graphic novels, superhero comics, utopic and dystopic science fiction, poetry, and satirical prose, as well as vinyl records and visual arts. Essays by a remarkable lineup of cultural theorists interrogate how plastic-as material and concept-has affected human sensibilities and expression. The collection reveals the place of plastic in reshaping how we perceive, relate to, represent, and re-imagine bodies, senses, environment, scale, mortality, and collective well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eLife in Plastic\u003c\/i\u003e think through plastic with an eye to imagining our way out of plastic, moving toward a postplastic future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: Crystal Bartolovich, Syracuse U; Maurizia Boscagli, U of California, Santa Barbara; Christopher Breu, Illinois State U; Loren Glass, U of Iowa; Sean Grattan, U of Kent; Nayoung Kim, Brandeis U; Jane Kuenz, U of Southern Maine; Paul Morrison, Brandeis U; W. Dana Phillips, Towson U in Maryland and Rhodes U in Grahamstown, South Africa; Margaret Ronda, UC-Davis; Lisa Swanstrom, U of Utah; Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Pennsylvania State U; Phillip E. Wegner, U of Florida; Daniel Worden, Rochester Institute of Technology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Concepts and Consequences of Plastic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaren Irr and Nayoung Kim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI. The Plastic Sensorium\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. “Paper or Plastic?” and Other Conundrums of Environmental Change\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eW. Dana Phillips\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Smelling \u003ci\u003ePolyester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Morrison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. The Album Era\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLoren Glass\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. The Plastic You: Plastination and the Post-Mortal Self\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJane Kuenz\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eII. The Plasticity of Genre\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. Plastic Man and Other Petrochemical Fantasies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDaniel Worden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Organic Form, Plastic Forms: The Nature of Plastic in Contemporary Ecopoetics\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMargaret Ronda\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. On the Beach: Porous Plasticity, Migration Art, and the \u003ci\u003eObjet TrouvÉ\u003c\/i\u003e of the Wasteocene\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaurizia Boscagli\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIII. Plastic’s Capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. “Refuge of Ignorance”: A Pre-History of “Plastic”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCrystal Bartolovich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. The Petrochemical Unconscious: Destructive Plasticities in Richard Powers’ \u003ci\u003eGain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher Breu\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. The Impossible Figure of Oceanic Plastic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSean Grattan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIV. Post-Plastic Futures?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. From Proto-plastics to the Plastiglomerate: Science Fiction’s Shifting Synthetic Sensibilities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLisa Swanstrom\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. Futures in Plastic: Science Fiction, Climate Change, and the New North\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhillip E. Wegner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. Plastic’s “Untiring Solicitation”: Geographies of Myth, Corporate Alibis, and the Plaesthetics of the MatacÃo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJennifer Wagner-Lawlor\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619252760856,"sku":"9781517909871","price":66.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/life-in-plastic-artistic-responses-to-petromodernity-hardback-9781517909871","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}