plasticene

plastic has nothing to do with plasticity. even metal and wood have more plasticity, at least in the meaningful sense of what can be done with it, what it can become, what degrees of freedom extend into the future etc. instead, plastic can't be reformed by the consumer. it's an irreversible reaction. it's like the cake you can't unbake. it's only flexible for the capitalist who produces it. 

Material infinity is terrifying for anyone who as much as begins to appreciate its consequences. It's our desire for permanence - our lust for immortality - that, in a turn of irony, creates the very thing our biology can't tolerate. When i look at these "wonders" of science, i don't see god. i see folly, i see pride. Pyramids and circles; of stone, of stone. Keep it reversible. Keep it weak. Build your empire out of twigs and never say forever. Always look back over your shoulder.

We want plastic
to become plastic
you, me, we, got it
alien alloy
foreign grub to the billion year old fundament
of brown digestion
that global colon
of coprophagic friends
the eat-shit-and-die detritivores
and the microscopic mouths
of fungi and bacteria:
decomposers
they orchestrate the compost!
break it all apart!
tear the system up!
bottom feeding source of circular momentum

We the top feeders
we the litterers
trying to improve upon the ages of stone and bronze
our blunders, permanent
birthing cumulative cesspools
of eternal error
immortal nanoparticles
the crystal flakes of the snow queen's plastic mirror
clogging our vasculature
inadvertent plastic statues
sinking like Atlantis