Thursday, June 17, 2021

How the pandemic is an example of a hyperobject—an incomprehensible thing so large that it subsumes us.


The Morning News https://ift.tt/3zbo1Kf

Fourteen million tons of Styrofoam are produced every year; chunks of it break down into particles that enter other objects, including animals. Although Styrofoam is everywhere, one can never point to all the Styrofoam in the world and say, “There it is.”

↩︎ The New Yorker

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