Plastic Memories of the Anthropocene

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D. Clinci
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Plastic has become a ubiquitous material on planet Earth. I use Bennett’s term, thing-power, to analyse various aspects of plastic’s onto-materiality. Generally considered a single-use material, plastic is easily discarded, leaving the individualized, private space of capitalism, and becoming a nomad, in the terms of Deleuze and Guattari, thus travelling through a smooth space. Then, plastic enters a symbiotic relationship with all biotic and abiotic bodies, becoming endo-plastic. As a geological layer, it becomes a “vibrant” memory of the nexus between capitalism and humanism, revealing its full political potential. Plastic is a witness, by-product and determinant of the Anthropocene, and its memory tells the political and ideological geostory (Donna J. Haraway) of human exceptionalism. Becoming-plastic is one way of overcoming anthropocentrism: not just by advocating for “post-humanism,” but by advocating for “posthum-ism,” even if this means “embracing human extinction” (Patricia MacCormack).
人类世的可塑记忆
塑料已经成为地球上无处不在的材料。我用班尼特的术语“物力”来分析塑料的非物质性的各个方面。塑料通常被认为是一种一次性材料,很容易被丢弃,离开了资本主义的个性化、私人空间,成为德勒兹和瓜塔里所说的游牧民,从而在一个平滑的空间中旅行。然后,塑料与所有生物和非生物体进入共生关系,成为内塑性。作为一个地质层,它成为资本主义和人文主义之间联系的“充满活力的”记忆,揭示了其充分的政治潜力。塑料是人类世的见证者、副产品和决定因素,它的记忆讲述了人类例外论的政治和意识形态历史(Donna J. Haraway)。变得可塑化是克服人类中心主义的一种方式:不仅要倡导“后人文主义”,还要倡导“后人类主义”,即使这意味着“拥抱人类灭绝”(帕特里夏·麦考马克)。
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Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory Arts and Humanities-Arts and Humanities (all)
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