Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the
Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is
in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics
penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material-it is
emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In
Plastic Matter Heather Davis traces plastic's relations to geology,
media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be
understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention
and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the
dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption
that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by
humans. Plastic's materiality and pliability reinforces these
expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these
relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships
between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing
photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of
plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to
reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of
plastic's saturation.
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