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Podcast: Pretty Heady Stuff
Episode: Heather Davis and Mark Simpson deconstruct the toxic and unknown properties of plastics
Description: Heather Davis is an assistant professor of Culture and Media at The New School in New York whose work draws on feminist and queer theory to examine ecology, materiality, and contemporary art in the context of settler colonialism. Her new book, Plastic Matter (Duke University Press, 2022), explores the transformation of geology, media, and bodies in light of plastic’s saturation. Davis is a member of the extraordinary Synthetic Collective, an interdisciplinary team of scientists, humanities scholars, and artists, who investigate and expose plastic pollution in the Great Lakes.
Mark Simpson is a settler scholar and professor in the Department of En...