A. L. Andrady and M. A. Neal, Applications and societal benefits of plastics, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol.42, issue.3, pp.1977-84, 2009.
DOI : 10.1016/S0025-326X(02)00150-9

P. Ball, CHEMISTRY AND POWER IN RECENT AMERICAN FICTION, pp.97-122, 2007.
DOI : 10.1142/9789812775856_0005

D. K. Barnes, F. Galgani, R. C. Thompson, and M. Barlas, Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol.13, issue.11, pp.1985-98, 2009.
DOI : 10.1897/03-357

B. Vincent and B. , Éloge du mixte: Matériaux nouveaux et philosophie ancienne, 1998.

B. Vincent and B. , Materials as machines, Science in the Context of Application, pp.101-115, 2010.

H. Bergson, Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics, 1946.

P. Carter, Material Thinking: The Theory and Practice of Creative Research, 2004.

R. Friedel, Pioneer Plastic: The Making and Setting of Celluloid, 1983.

W. J. Hales, Chemistry Triumphant: The Rise and Reign of Chemistry in a Chemical World, 1932.

W. Haynes, MEN, MONEY AND MOLECULES, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, vol.86, issue.3, 1936.
DOI : 10.1097/00005053-193709000-00041

R. Jones, Soft Machines, 2004.

S. Y. Lee, E. coli moves into the plastic age, Nature Biotechnology, vol.15, issue.1, pp.17-18, 1997.
DOI : 10.1016/0167-7799(96)10061-5
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/in2p3-00656619

I. Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason, 1781.

A. D. Menzolit, Composites, plastiques renforcés, fibres de verre textile, 1995.

J. L. Meikle, American Plastic: A Cultural History, 1995.

J. L. Meikle, Beyond plastics: postmodernity and the culture of synthesis Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Turn of Postmodernism, pp.325-367, 1996.

J. L. Meikle, Material Doubts: The Consequences of Plastic, Environmental History, vol.2, issue.3, pp.278-300, 1997.
DOI : 10.2307/3985351

S. Mossman and P. Morris, The Development of Plastics, 1994.

R. Powers, Gain, 1998.

R. N. Proctor and L. Schiebinger, Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance, 2008.

R. Sklar, Plastic Age, 1917.

R. C. Thompson, S. H. Swan, C. J. Moore, V. Saal, and F. , Our plastic age, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol.16, issue.5672, pp.1973-76, 2009.
DOI : 10.1126/science.1094559
URL : http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874019

N. Thrift, Space, Theory, Culture & Society, vol.23, issue.2-3, pp.139-55, 2006.
DOI : 10.1177/0263276406063780

G. M. Whitesides and M. Boncheva, Beyond molecules: Self-assembly of mesoscopic and macroscopic components, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, pp.4769-74, 2002.
DOI : 10.1073/pnas.082065899

S. Zhang, Emerging biological materials through molecular self-assembly, Biotechnology Advances, vol.20, issue.5-6, pp.321-360, 2002.
DOI : 10.1016/S0734-9750(02)00026-5