essays

2024    Kirsty Robertson and Heather Davis “Plastic Dislocations: Questions of Labour and Environment in Plastic HeartSculpture Journal (27 November): 561–582. https://doi.org/10.3828/sj.2024.33.4.06

(2023) “Waiting in Petro-Time” Environmental Humanities 15 (3): 52-64.

(2023) Teflon: Slipperiness and the Domestication of Toxicity. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. Vol. 9 No. 1 (2023): Special Section: Domestication of War

(2022) “Plastic Media” e-flux 126 (April)

(2021) “Iridescent Surfaces: Reflections on Art and Oil” in Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, ed. Andreas Beitin, Alexander Klose, Benjamin Steininger (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König)

(2020) “To Live in Compromised Worlds: Holly Jean Buck’s After Geoengineering” The Avery Review 45 (Winter) 

(2019) “Blue, Bling: On Extractivism” Afterall 48

(2018) “Bad Stars: How Christina Battle’s installation art re-envisions Sarnia’s Chemical Valley—and the pollution it leaves behind” Canadian Art. September 20, 2018.

(2017) with Zoe Todd “On the Importance of a Date, or, Decolonizing the Anthropocene” ACME Journal 16 No. 4: 761-780.

(2017) “On Whiteness and Loving Annie Pootoogook” MAWA Newsletter

(2017) “To Breathe in the Cosmos” Tomás Saraceno: Aerosolar Journeys Catalogue, edited by Sabine Schaschl. Zurich: Museum Haus Konstruktiv: 7-11.

(2017) “Future Imaginaries for When the World Feels Like Heartbreak” Take Magazine Vol. 3 Issue 1 (January-June): 14-17.

(2016) “The Domestication of Plastic,” in The 3D Additivist Cookbook, edited by Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. 303-305.

(2016) “Imperceptibility and Accumulation: Political Strategies of Plastic” Camera Obscura 92 vol. 31, no. 2: 186-193.

(2016) “Molecular Intimacy,” in Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, edited by James Graham. New York and Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers and Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. 205-211.

(2016) “The Land and Water and Air That We Are: Some Thoughts on COP21” SFAQ/NYAQ/AQ: International Arts and Culture.

(2016) “Love” in Keywords for Radicals, edited by Kelly Fritsch, Clare O’Connor and AK Thompson. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 245-252.

(2016) Contribution to Marina Zurkow, ed. More & More (A Guide to the Harmonized System) Brooklyn: Punctum Books. 

(2015) “Toxic Progeny: The Plastisphere and Other Queer Futures” PhiloSOPHIA 5.2 (Summer): 232-250.

(2015) “Future Animals” in Beastly/Tierisch, edited by Duncan Forbes. Leipzig: Fotomuseum Winterthur and Spector Books. 114-129.

(2015) “Life and Death in the Anthropocene: A Short History of Plastic” in Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies, edited by Heather Davis and Etienne Turpin. London: Open Humanities Press. 

(2015) “Plastic: Accumulation without Metabolism” in catalogue for Placing the Golden Spike Milwaukee: INOVA.

(2015) “Distance in Proximity: Spiral Garden, Community-based Art and Friendship” Third Text 29, nos. 132-133 (January-March). DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2015.1047612

(2012) with Nathalie Casemajor Loustau “Ouvert/Open: Common Utopias,” Fibreculture: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures. 20: 123-142.

(2010) “Growing Collectives: Haha + Flood” Public 41: 36-47.