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Visions of Eternity: Plastic and the Ontology of Oil
Amanda Boetzkes and Andrew Pendakis
Plastic is the very idea of its infinite transformation … it is ubiquity made visible … it is less a thing than the trace of a movement.
—Roland Barthes
Plastic weaves itself into every facet of our contemporary reality. It does not simply surround us, it is an epistemology and the reflection of a galling political impasse. It appears elemental; we rely on it for our built environments and for all the objects we fill them with—our toys and tools, all our gifts and trash. It…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2013
Category
Capitalism
Subjects
Anthropocene, Environment, Extractivism