I live and work in my hometown of San Diego, California. The Plastic Society serves as a personal weblog, cultivating a kind of internal curiosity, engagement, and hope. I was born in 1973. My name is Esteban.
Broadly, The Plastic Society offers snippets, meditations, questions and commentary about contemporary cultural practice – art, entertainment, news, craft, and consumer society. These sites of meaning-making deserve and need cultural inquiry and engaged criticism The Plastic Society explores links between the academic and the everyday in the areas of cinema, television, news, consumer society, and popular culture. Everyday life deserves both celebration and skepticism, and The Plastic Society endeavors to leap between both.
Mostly, The Plastic Society endeavors to offer a criticism of hope and possibility. When life seems needlessly complex, when injustice prevails, when the world’s got you down, expressions of hope can cut across trouble in the form of music, film, art, cultural critique, experiences with nature, humor, dissent, and long walks along the ocean. TPS is my little project to remind myself of this.
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Just how do you mean that, sir?
- The Graduate (1967)
