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Caren Irr is professor of English at Brandeis University. She is author or editor of five previous books, among them Toward the Geopolitical Novel: US Fiction in the 21st Century and The Suburbs of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and Canada during the 1930s.
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Concepts and Consequences of Plastic Caren Irr and Nayoung Kim I. The Plastic Sensorium 1. “Paper or Plastic?” and Other Conundrums of Environmental Change W. Dana Phillips 2. Smelling Polyester Paul Morrison 3. The Album Era Loren Glass 4. The Plastic You: Plastination and the Post-Mortal Self Jane Kuenz II. The Plasticity of Genre 5. Plastic Man and Other Petrochemical Fantasies Daniel Worden 6. Organic Form, Plastic Forms: The Nature of Plastic in Contemporary Ecopoetics Margaret Ronda 7. On the Beach: Porous Plasticity, Migration Art, and the Objet Trouvé of the Wasteocene Maurizia Boscagli III. Plastic’s Capitalism 8. “Refuge of Ignorance”: A Pre-History of “Plastic” Crystal Bartolovich 9. The Petrochemical Unconscious: Destructive Plasticities in Richard Powers’ Gain Christopher Breu 10. The Impossible Figure of Oceanic Plastic Sean Grattan IV. Post-Plastic Futures? 11. From Proto-plastics to the Plastiglomerate: Science Fiction’s Shifting Synthetic Sensibilities Lisa Swanstrom 12. Futures in Plastic: Science Fiction, Climate Change, and the New North Phillip E. Wegner 13. Plastic’s “Untiring Solicitation”: Geographies of Myth, Corporate Alibis, and the Plaesthetics of the Matacão Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor Contributors Index
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Concepts and Consequences of Plastic Caren Irr and Nayoung Kim I. The Plastic Sensorium 1. “Paper or Plastic?” and Other Conundrums of Environmental Change W. Dana Phillips 2. Smelling Polyester Paul Morrison 3. The Album Era Loren Glass 4. The Plastic You: Plastination and the Post-Mortal Self Jane Kuenz II. The Plasticity of Genre 5. Plastic Man and Other Petrochemical Fantasies Daniel Worden 6. Organic Form, Plastic Forms: The Nature of Plastic in Contemporary Ecopoetics Margaret Ronda 7. On the Beach: Porous Plasticity, Migration Art, and the Objet Trouvé of the Wasteocene Maurizia Boscagli III. Plastic’s Capitalism 8. “Refuge of Ignorance”: A Pre-History of “Plastic” Crystal Bartolovich 9. The Petrochemical Unconscious: Destructive Plasticities in Richard Powers’ Gain Christopher Breu 10. The Impossible Figure of Oceanic Plastic Sean Grattan IV. Post-Plastic Futures? 11. From Proto-plastics to the Plastiglomerate: Science Fiction’s Shifting Synthetic Sensibilities Lisa Swanstrom 12. Futures in Plastic: Science Fiction, Climate Change, and the New North Phillip E. Wegner 13. Plastic’s “Untiring Solicitation”: Geographies of Myth, Corporate Alibis, and the Plaesthetics of the Matacão Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor Contributors Index
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