Tag: Plastic
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Contaminated Art on the Plastic Archipelago
in ExhibitsOn the metropolitan archipelago of Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, where plastic intermingles with organic matter, mixed media artist Alex Côté Hallé creates art that intertwines the urban, the fluvial, and the queer.
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El Asunto del Tiempo
in EssaysMonika Szuba enfrenta el tiempo profundo a través del examen de la descomposición, entre lo que es real y lo que es sintético. En este contexto, escribe que la longue durée no es lo suficientemente larga para concebir el cambio antropogénico que se despliega a nuestro alrededor.
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Grave Decoration and Deep Time: A Poem
in PoetryInspired by embalming practices and artificial flowers in graveyards, Madeleine Bavley pens a poem exploring how we might trouble time with synthetic substances.
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The Matter with Time
in EssaysMonika Szuba confronts deep time through the examination of decay, between what is real and what is synthetic. In this, she writes that the long durée is not long enough to conceive the anthropogenic change unfolding around us.
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Living With Plastic and Toxicity, Queerly
in ReviewsSvenja Engelmann-Kewitz reviews Heather Davis’s book Plastic Matter, which theorizes the queer potentials and complex legacies of plastic.
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Art for Our Plastic Present
in ReviewsNatalie Wright reviews an exhibit on “Plastic Entanglements” at the Chazen Museum of Art which explores questions of our plastic, synthetic world.
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The Pleasures of Teaching Plastic
in FieldnotesPlastic shapes us even as it contributes to our destruction. A performance studies scholar shares her creative approach to teaching about plastic and identity in an unavoidably plastic world.
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The Year of the Plastic Straw Ban
in CommentaryControversial plastic straw bans continue to make headlines. A cultural analysis helps weigh the most recent legislation and asks whether bans on single-use plastics offer a path toward a more sustainable future or a distraction from systemic change.