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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 27 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350380639
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Short description:
Bringing plastic and concrete - two of the contemporary age's most significant materials - together, this book uses a wide range of sources, including novels, essays, travel and nature writings, films, advertisements, policy documents and (popular) science writing, to explore the material conditions of modern life.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1. Plastic Pacific
Chapter 2. Megadam Materialites
Chapter 3. Unpacking Plastic
Chapter 4. Concrete Ruins
Conclusion
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