Synthetic Frontiers
Ocean Plastic and the Persistence of Trash Islands
$143.26
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2025
Summary
A floating plastic island has become a powerful symbol of ocean pollution, but no one can find it at sea. While marine scientists dismiss the trash island as myth, Synthetic Frontiers argues that its persistence is a consequence of dominant ways of knowing and exploiting the Pacific Ocean. Bringing feminist science and technology studies approaches to materiality together with hydrohumanities critiques of terracentrism, Kim De Wolff shows how ocean plastic pollution is shaped by land…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553681 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262553686 |
| Author: | Kim De Wolff |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“A brilliant and detailed ethnographic account of a trash island that cannot be found. This book traces how a synthetic frontier is marking the world and reinscribing colonial borders between land and water.”—Heather Davis, The New School; author of Plastic Matter“De Wolff spins a compelling tale about how to think and act about marine pollution, that seagoing sign of trouble in the Anthropocene.”—Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author of A Book of Waves“‘Did you see it?’ Synthetic Frontiers boldly confronts the mythification of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch through careful analyses of epistemic uncertainty at sea, in the laboratory, and across media.”—Melody Jue, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara; author of Wild Blue Media“A critically interesting, thoughtful conversation about relationships involving colonialism, feminism, capitalism, the entanglement of environmental relations, and petrocapitalism in reaction to intended/unintended garbage sinks in the ocean.” —Choice
About The Author
Kim De Wolff
Kim De Wolff is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University of North Texas.
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