[Caren Irr]

 

Proposals welcomed.

Writing After Plastic

How does a political economy of plastic confront its contradictions? Which aesthetic faces does a plastics-based materialism present? How do eco-socialisms envision the excesses, alternatives, and after-lives of plastic? In what forms (aesthetic and/or political) does plastic break down?

250-word abstracts by 3/1/18 to Caren Irr (irr@brandeis.edu)

This panel is a non-guaranteed session sponsored by the Marxism, Literature, and Society forum.

This topic was also posted in: CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities.

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