Proliferation, Action: Marine Plastic Pollution, Material Agency, and Affective Representation

  • Clare Echterling University of Kansas

Abstract


Seeing plastic as an actant rather than inert matter can help us better comprehend the effects of marine plastic pollution. In this essay, I read various texts that depict plastic as an actant, highlighting the ways they give narrative urgency to a crisis that we normally cannot see.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.19.1145
Published
05-Dec-2014
How to Cite
Echterling, Clare. 2014. “Proliferation, Action: Marine Plastic Pollution, Material Agency, and Affective Representation”. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 19 (December). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.19.1145.
Issue
No 19 (2014): The New Materialisms
Section
Articles

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