Plastic: An Autobiography

Plastic: An Autobiography explores how technology, sprung from desire, draws all beings into its net, and asks how to live justly within its grasp. Cobb’s investigation into a piece of plastic from WWII, found in the stomach of a baby albatross, leads her to understand the interconnected violence of plastic waste, climate change, nuclear technologies, and racism. Using a series of interwoven narratives―from ancient Phoenicia to Alabama―the book bears witness to our deepest entanglements and asks how humans continue on this planet.