“For even though oil, through plastic, participates in the time-eating acceleration that characterises petrocapitalism, it is also one of the main residues of this time: techno-fossils and petrochemicals refuse to disappear, and will continue to haunt and exist intergenerationally.”
“{Plastic} was once described by Vice Magazine as ‘shark dick.’ I’m not sure exactly why, but I like the description because it speaks to the sexiness, the appeal, and the utter repulsion of the texture of plastic all at once.”
- Heather Davis in conversation with Kris Dittel and Clementine Edwards, The Material Kinship Reader (2022)
