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Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste
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An argument for the centrality of the visual culture of waste—as seen in works by international contemporary artists—to the study of our ecological condition.
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 econom...