Waste as the artful excess of natural selection

This thought-experiment consists of a series of letters between Feral Susan (Susan Nordstrom), Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee, and Emu Girrl (Margaret Somerville), Nepean River, Emu Green in Western Sydney. In this thought experiment, we move in the realm of litter’s inanimate manifestations that tell their own stories of movement and flow, stories of the river. They are stories of the inhuman within the human. Plastic and waste call us back to our rivers, the Nepean and Mississippi to (re)think with waste. Waste creates with, and on us, moves us from its affective production of disgust and aggression, to embrace its proliferation as Artful excess. Our thought experiment with waste materializes transformative becomings that generate past-present-future affective residues of wonder about the materialities of litter and rivers.