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Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste

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Ecological crisis has driven contemporary artists to engage with waste in its most non-biodegradable forms: plastics, e-waste, toxic waste, garbage hermetically sealed in landfills. In this provocative and original book, Amanda Boetzkes links the increasing visualization of waste in contemporary art to the rise of the global oil economy and the emergence of ecological thinking. Often, when art is analyzed in relation to the political, scientific, or ecological climate, it is considered merely illustrative. Boetzkes argues that art is constitutive of an ecological consciousness, not simply an extension of it. The visual culture of waste is central to the study of the ecological condition.

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: The MIT Pressv., 2019

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English

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9780262351188

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Amanda Boetzkes

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Tedy

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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11972.001.0001

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