Radioactive ghosts /

"Radioactive Ghosts hopefully conveys the need to see nuclearism as absolutely central to the debates about the anthropocene or capitalocene. Radioactive contamination is, after all, arguably the most destructive footprint humans have left on the planet. Within this larger framework, my focus o...

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Autore principale: Schwab, Gabriele (Autore)
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press [2020]
Serie:Posthumanities ; 61.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctv182jtjg
Sommario:
  • Preface : Of three-eyed fish and other ghostings
  • Introduction : Why nuclear necropolitics today?
  • Part 1. Nuclear subjectivities
  • No apocalypse, not now : Derrida and the nuclear unconscious
  • Nuclear colonialism
  • Critical nuclear race theory
  • The gender of nuclear subjectivities
  • Interlude : Children of the nuclear age, with Simon J. Ortiz
  • Part 2. Haunting from the future
  • The afterlife of nuclear catastrophes
  • Hiroshima's ghostly shadows
  • Postnuclear madness and nuclear crypts
  • Transspecies selves : intimacies, extimacies, animacies
  • Coda: Postnuclear ecologies : language, body, and affect in Beckett's Happy Days.