Author

Publication

2024 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Language

English

Word Count

58,000 words, Guess

Page Count

232 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781350380639
  • ISBN-101350380636
  • Better World Books9781350380639
  • Open LibraryOL51615561M

Classifications

  • LCCTA439.C69 2024

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Concrete and PlasticBloomsbury Publishing Plc2024

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