10 Plastic Poetics: Challenging the Epistemologies of Plastic Waste in the Artwork of Maria Roelofsen

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Foreword xv
6. Introduction: The Petroproduct: On Plastics, Capitalism, and Oil 1
7. Part I Plastic Lives
8. 1 Plastics: What Are They Good For? 27
9. 2 How Hula Hoops Changed Hygiene: From Damp-Cloth Utopianism to Chemical Cleaning 47
10. 3 The Anti-Plastic City: Local Governments, Plastic Waste, and the Undoing of the Weak Recycling Waste Regime in the United States 68
11. Part II Plastic Proliferation
12. 4 From Plasticity to the Aesthesis of Queer Toxicity 87
13. 5 Microplastics in Arctic Sea Ice: A Petromodern Archive Fever 105
14. 6 Jugoplastika: Plastics and Postsocialist Realism 125
15. 7 Failed Infrastructures, My Little Ponies, and Wadden Plastics: The Eco-Intimacies of the MSC Zoe Container Disaster 143
16. Part III Plastics in Art
17. 8 The Pioneers of Plasticraft: When Artists Found Plastics in the United States 161
18. 9 Plastic Intimacy: Chinese Art Making as Recycling Practice 181
19. 10 Plastic Poetics: Challenging the Epistemologies of Plastic Waste in the Artwork of Maria Roelofsen 203
20. 11 The Performance of Plasticity: Method Acting, Prosthetics, and the Virtuosity of Embodied Transformation 216
21. Part IV Plastics in Literature
22. 12 Polymeric Thinking: Allison Cobb’s Plastic: An Autobiography 241
23. 13 Plastic City: Temporality, Materiality, and Waste in Vanessa Berry’s Mirror Sydney 261
24. 14 Better Learning through Plastic?: The Moby-Duck Saga and Pedagogy 276
25. Part V Plastics and the Future
26. 15 Disposable: The Dirty Word in Medical Plastics 301
27. 16 Eco-Fascism and Alienation: Plastics in a Post-COVID World 325
28. 17 Plastic in the Time of Impasse 338
29. Index 361