Session Information
Description: Panelists explore a variety of topics pertaining to the literary imagination of today’s plastic crisis: the earliest uses of the term plastic in nineteenth-century industrial journals; the representations of plastic-related labor in China; the metaphoric implications of plastic’s presence in our food systems; the climate of consumption in contemporary poetry; the representations of a subject tacitly implicated in the making of the Plasticene.
Speakers
Tom Hertweck, U of Nevada, Reno
Jessica Holmes, U of Washington, Seattle
Rebecca Raitses, Graduate Center, City U of New York
Adam Rosenthal, Texas A&M U, College Station
Xingyue Zhou, Southern U of Science and Technology, China
Presider
Margarita Smagina, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon