377) Heather Davis: Living in 'Petrotime' and seeing plastic as grand-kin
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 18 October 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
“What [the plastiglomerate] really highlights is the fact that plastic is now so incredibly ubiquitous that it can’t be taken out or removed. It is, in fact, a part of geology at this point in time.”
In this episode, we welcome Heather Davis, an assistant professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York whose work draws on feminist and queer theory to examine ecology, materiality, and contemporary art in the context of settler colonialism. Her most recent book, Plastic Matter (Duke University Press, 2022), explores the transformation of geology, media, and bodies in light of plastic’s saturation.
(The musical offering featured in this episode The Witness by Rowan Rain. The episode-inspired artwork is by Sophie Le Grelle.)
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| 1:35.0 | We really don't know the ways in which we are kind of fundamentally altering our world, |
| 1:40.8 | and this is happening at these kinds of really radical time scales that are in some ways very hard to fathom and are colliding in all kinds of different directions. |
| 1:45.0 | And so the concept of Petrochime was trying to grapple with the kind of geological aspect of |
| 1:51.0 | plastic steep time and also in terms of thinking about the unknown ways in which plastic |
| 1:58.0 | and its associated chemicals are affecting our bodies. |
| 2:05.5 | Today we're speaking with Heather Davis, an assistant professor of culture and media at the |
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