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Pacific and Plastic: Midway Atoll, Plastiglomerate, and Love of Place
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 51, Number 3, September 2018
- pp. 123-140
- 10.1353/mos.2018.0034
- Article
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Abstract:
This essay examines plastic in the Pacific via Chris Jordan's Midway: Message from the Gyre photographs and the concept "plastiglomerates," proposed by geologist Patricia L. Corcoran, artist Kelly Jazvac, and oceanographer Charles J. Moore. It also rethinks the Anthropocene through models that work against colonialist and imperialist legacies and toward economic and social justice.