Kim De Wolff

Tag: representation

  • Upcoming Talk at St Thomas University

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    The Plastic Island That Isn’t There: How Absences Matter for Science and the Ocean The mainstream media consensus seems irrefutable: there is an island of plastic waste floating in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean. But despite agreement on its location and a proliferation of claims about its size, no one can find it;…

  • Occupy Trash Island?

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    Making slides for a recent conference presentation, I googled across this image: Intrigued, I click though to its source, an article titled “Paradise Recycled: Architects Dream of Turning Great Pacific Garbage Patch Into Habitable Island,” which outlines plans for a floating metropolis to be made from plastic waste gathered from the sea. I gaze in…

  • “Frightening” Headlines

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    I must confess, the word “frightening” making news headlines was uttered by none other than myself. I can qualify, however, that most of what I said was edited out. You know, the part where I emphasized how the big chunks were quite dispersed, how when you’re out there it mostly just appears as clean blue…