plastic, n.All

Plastic is a miraculous substance that clearly demonstrates the human power over nature, and yet it is ultimately naturalized, filled with the self-image of a bourgeois culture which views itself as timeless and universal.

Plastic is treated less as a material for making things than a miraculous embodiment of the human ability to transform nature into wholly domestic, wholly bourgeois objects of utility.

plastic lasts almost forever --- it takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing

Plastic is a material that offers up a vision of a human world in which all objects are transformed objects, having no other value than their use.