Plastic
The Anthropocene Project. An Encyclopedia
Once, the human being pounded clay into bricks and built houses, step by step refining it to create all kinds of useful things around the house and garden with increasing adroitness. Some even see humankind as formed from clay, brought to life by divine breath. Bound to the earth, subject to greater powers. Let us fast forward a few thousand years and look around: plastic has taken the place of clay. Plastic, this wonderful material, ingeniously interwoven, bendable, cuttable, malleable, still solid and always light. While clay breaks and, like human beings, decays to dust, plastic has a hard time doing both. Impossible to destroy and mobile at the same time. If there is a god, why didn’t he make us out of plastic?
More information in the media section
A Matter Theater | Natascha Sadr Haghighian – de paso
A Matter Theater | Bettina Vismann – Floating Selection
External links for further reading
Volume RAY. In: Grain, Vapor, Ray. MIT Press, 2014.
De Paso. Explanations on plastic, rolling cases, and water bottles by Chus Martinez
