Plastic Matter traces plastic’s relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. Davis charts these relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic’s saturation.
Winner of ALECC Alanna Bondar Literary Prize, 2024; ASLE Ecocritical Book Award Finalist, 2023; Honorable Mention, Kendrick Prize, SLSA, 2022.
Commissioned for the 30th anniversary of MAWA, Desire Change is the first collection of writings on contemporary feminist art in Canada, examining intersectional feminism, decolonization, and feminist institutional critique and institution building. It was the winner of the 2018 Melva J. Dwyer award.
Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies brings together artists, curators, philosophers, and critics to engage the provocative Anthropocene thesis. With contributions from artists, curators and theorists, we argue that the anthropocene is primarily an aesthetic event, and as such the arts are particularly well suited to making claims on our geologic and environmental present.