"pLASTOPia: Future Ecologies"
- Seçkin AYDIN
- 23 Ağu 2023
- 1 dakikada okunur
Güncelleme tarihi: 2 Nis
pLASTOPia: Future Ecologies.
In its shift from fast fashion to an ultra-fast fashion regime, today’s system of production and consumption generates, exhausts, and discards objects at accelerating speed. Yet this “disappearance” operates only within the logic of the market. Once released into the environment, materials enter a different temporality. The textile industry’s vast production of microplastics constitutes the material foundation of this transformation. Everything worn leaves a residue elsewhere—accumulating, persisting, and becoming something else.
pLASTOPia: Future Ecologies conceptualizes the threshold at which microplastics are no longer merely environmental pollutants, but have become a material regime embedded within the metabolic circulation of living bodies. As it speculates on the possible future forms of organisms exposed to these conditions, the work mobilizes irony as a central strategy: the very substance that endangers life simultaneously becomes the condition of its reconfiguration. In doing so, pLASTOPia situates itself within an indeterminate zone between dystopia and utopia, pointing toward a transformed continuity in which biological existence is entangled with plastic—hybrid, familiar, and profoundly uncanny.
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