A vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores
artistic responses to the plastic age Since 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. With impressive breadth and compelling urgency,
the essays in Life in Plastic 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. Ultimately, the contributors to Life in
Plastic think through plastic with an eye to imagining our way out
of plastic, moving toward a postplastic future. Contributors:
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.
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