Life in Plastic - 9781517909871

Life in PlasticArtistic Responses to Petromodernity\nAuthor(s): Caren Irr\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517909871, 978-1517909871\nSynopsis\nA vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age\n\nSince 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.\n\nWith impressive bre.