The Song of the Sirens and the Enchantment of Plastics
Abstract
This chapter is concerned with plastics as an aesthetic material, and with plasticity as that which is performed through this aesthetic material. Through plasticity, plastics display their mouldable and transformational quality, taking shape in different states of matter and forms – to become a household item, a toy, or packaging material. However, the performativity of plastics considered here is less an effect of its material properties, but rather of worldmaking practices at work in plastics.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
Art
Aesthetics
and Perception
Architecture
Modernity
and Design
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 224–241
- Publication date
- 11 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter