Heather Davis is a researcher and writer from Montreal. A FQRSC postdoctoral fellow in Women’s Studies at Duke University, she currently is working on the ethology of plastic and its links to the philosophic ideal of identity. Davis is the co-editor of the forthcoming Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Politics, Aesthetics, Environments & Epistemologies, bringing together artists, curators, art historians and philosophers to discuss the aesthetic provocations of the Anthropocene thesis.