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

Authors

  • Clare Echterling University of Kansas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.19.1145

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.

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Published

05-Dec-2014

Issue

No. 19 (2014): The New Materialisms

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Articles

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How to Cite

“Proliferation, Action: Marine Plastic Pollution, Material Agency, and Affective Representation”. 2014. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 19 (December). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.19.1145.