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Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality de Kylie Crane

Concrete and Plastic: Thinking through Materiality: Environmental Cultures

Autor Kylie Crane
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 noi 2025
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350380639
ISBN-10: 1350380636
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 150 x 232 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Environmental Cultures

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1. Plastic Pacific
Chapter 2. Megadam Materialites
Chapter 3. Unpacking Plastic
Chapter 4. Concrete Ruins
Conclusion
Bibliography

Recenzii

Kylie Crane's fascinating new book traces two of the most pervasive and pertinent materials of modernity: plastic and concrete ... What the book [makes] clear is that to study such diffractions of plastic and/with concrete is a particularly apt way to come to terms with modernity both in its cultural expressions and its naturecultural repercussions in the Anthropocene.
This book performs an exciting update to methods in material culture studies, bridging these to concerns raised by the new materialists. It offers brilliant overviews of the qualities of plastic and concrete as objects in flow, and it develops these accounts of modern materiality in a delightfully eclectic array of readings.
Marvelously eclectic. a theoretically sophisticated academic book focused on "the capacity of materials to form relations across spatial and temporal dimensions". a work attuned to heartening possibilities; to alternative futures.
While Concrete and Plastic is not solely a history book, it makes a significant contribution to historical scholarship by examining materials through the lenses of environmental justice, decay, and the entanglement of bodies, substances, and infrastructures. Crane emphasizes the afterlife of materials - their toxicity, longevity, and cultural presence-adding urgency to debates on sustainability and extractive economies.