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Concrete and Plastic
Thinking through Materiality
Abstract
Plastic and concrete are two of the most ubiquitous materials of the modern age. This open access book traces inventions, inventories and interventions of these materials as they pervade our day-to-day lives across various forms. By proposing we think of the ways materials configure ‘future artefacts’, and by recognizing the various ways in which materials shape our encounters with the world, the book explores the productive tensions implicit in, and between, concrete and plastic. Drawing ona wide range of sources, including novels, essays, travel and nature writings, films, poems, souvenirs, advertisements, policy documents, environmental art, wrapping,and (popular) science writing, the book attends to all kinds of cultural artefacts to trace imaginative entanglements with disparate others in the Anthropocene. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com Open access was funded by The University of Rostock.
Keywords
material culture studies; Berlin Wall; Great Pacific Garbage Patch; Anthropocene; waste; waste studies; nature writing; travel writing; urbex photography; newspaper articles; novels; Dany Laferrie`re; The World is Moving Around Me; J.G. Ballard; High-RiseDOI
10.5040/9781350380622ISBN
9781350380608, 9781350380608, 9781350380615Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/Publication date and place
London, 2024Imprint
Bloomsbury AcademicSeries
Environmental Cultures,Classification
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: from c 2000
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000