2022/04/07

Heather Davis on How Plastic Haunts Us over Deep Time

● 07/04/2022
“Plastic can, in this light, be thought of as a medium, communicating with long-dead organisms to make their vital presence felt among the living.”
– Ecology researcher Heather Davis, on how plastic is a medium. “Settlers need to learn the lessons of haunting, even as we are being haunted by this material that refuses to let us go,” she advises, offering a path forward from the (material) glut of past mistakes.
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