第269回白眉セミナー ： Plastic Cosmologies: Radical Permeation and the Self
- Saskia Abrahms Kavunenko 特定准教授（15期・人間環境学研究科）
- 2025/06/03 4:45pm
- 学術研究支援棟地下会議室1＆2
- 英語
- オンサイト
要旨
Over the last century the ever-increasing abundance and affordances of
plastics have come to instantiate modernity through their successes
and failures in usage and beyond. Materially, plastics have a capacity
to stubbornly endure, yet simultaneously to fracture. This talk will
explore the heritage of plastic objects in their shattering and
dispersal. The novel presence and ubiquity of plastics has caused some
scholars to propose that the presence of plastics within stratigraphic
layering or within plastiglomerate (a type of rock made up of melded
plastics and organic matter) could constitute possible markers of the
Anthropocene. Yet plastics don’t seem to want to stay in their own
epoch. Microplastics can migrate and infuse sedimentary layers from
previous eras, shimmying down to earlier stratigraphic layers and
infusing and complicating the very knowability of the past. This talk
will look at the temporal vertiginousness of the current epoch through
the recalcitrance of human-made materials to cooperate in the
chronological schemes of their makers.