Plastic Matter

by Heather Davis and Heather Davis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478017759
• ISBN13: 9781478017752
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"