In the Doldrums: Plastic, Haunting and the Sea

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SUB-STANCE Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.1353/sub.2022.0001

Thangam Ravindranathan, A. Traisnel

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Abstract

Abstract:The 87,000 metric tons of non-biodegradable plastic bits gathering in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch occupy the very zones known in the Age of Sail as the doldrums—the “dead calm,” where ships would be stranded for weeks at a time, as famously described in Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, some of Melville’s writings and Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques. To re-read these texts today is to have the haunting experience of seeing petrochemical debris collect silently, as if retroactively, in the very doldrums that fossil-fuel-powered speed was believed to have transcended.

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在沉闷中：塑料、闹鬼和大海

摘要：聚集在大太平洋垃圾带的87000公吨不可生物降解的塑料碎片占据了航海时代被称为萧条的区域——“死寂”，船只会一次搁浅数周，正如柯勒律治的《古代水手的雾霾》、梅尔维尔的一些著作和莱维·斯特劳斯的《热带风暴》中著名的描述。今天重读这些文本，就有一种难忘的体验，看到石化碎片在化石燃料驱动的速度被认为已经超越的低迷中默默地收集，仿佛在追溯。

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