Plastic An Autobiography

A daunting, investigative journey, into how the autobiography of plastic became the autobiography of all of us.From nineteenth century London to ancient Rome and modern day Marshall Islands, Plastic: An Autobiography explores how technology, sprung from desire, draws all beings into its net, and asks how to live justly from within its grasp. Enacted through a process of weaving and entanglement in imitation of the ways past and present create one another, Cobb's investigations into the story of a certain piece of plastic, found in the stomach of a baby albatross and dated back to WWII, lead her to unravel the interconnections among plastic, climate change, and nuclear technologies.