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[Rituals and Tactics] Bioplastic Cookbook for Ritual Healing from Petrochemical Landscapes

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This cookbook refigures materials and methods for radically remaking the historically dominant petrochemically derived plastic materials that we use in our everyday lives.

Rituals and Tactics Creating bioplastics is a long and slow process, it is a place of participatory and integrative making outside of our predominant instant gratification/ready-to-consume culture. It's a fluid and transmutative process. You get your hands sticky, slime like solutions can seep between cracks and onto different surfaces of your home or workspace, spreading like a plasmodial body. Think of the process of heating, cooking and cooling the bioplastics as part of a material ritual. Think of the intentions you are putting into the bioplastic as you combine the ingredients, and…

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