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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Plastic materialities
- 1. Plastics, materials and dreams of dematerialization / Bernadette Bensaude Vincent
- 2. Process and plasticity: Printing, prototyping and the prospects of plastic / Mike Michael
- pt. II Plastic economies
- 3. Made to be wasted: PET and topologies of disposability / Gay Hawkins
- 4. material politics of vinyl: How the state, industry and citizens created and transformed West Germany's consumer democracy / Andrea Westermann
- 5. Paying with plastic: The enduring presence of the credit card / Joe Deville
- pt. III Plastic bodies
- 6. death and life of plastic surfaces: Mobile phones / Tom Fisher
- 7. Reflections of an unrepentant plastiphobe: An essay on plasticity and the STS life / Jody A. Roberts
- 8. Plasticizers: A twenty-first-century miasma / Max Liboiron
- 9. Plastics, environment and health / Richard C. Thompson
- pt. IV New articulations
- 10. Where does this stuff come from? Oil, plastic and the distribution of violence / Mika Minio-Paluello
- 11. International Pellet Watch: Studies of the magnitude and spatial variation of chemical risks associated with environmental plastics / Shige Takada
- 12. Plastic and the work of the biodegradable / Jennifer Gabrys.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
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Call Numbers:
- HC79.S3 A25 2013
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ISBNs:
- 1135090459 (electronic bk.)
9781135090456 (electronic bk.)
9780415625821 (hardback) [Invalid]
0415625823 (hardback) [Invalid]
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OCLC Numbers:
- 854765721
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Other Control Numbers:
- 615530 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp10887387
