Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-64522-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities

Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android investigates the threat conveyed and maintained by the nuclear cycle: mining, research, health, power generation and weaponry.

Central to this polyvalent 'report' on the infiltration of our lives and control over them exerted by the industrial-military complex, are critiques of the creation, storage and use of atomic weapons, the exploitation of Australian Aboriginal people and their lands through British atomic testing in the 1950s, and an exposé of a language of denial in the world of nuclear mining/energy/military usages. 'Nuclear' is also parenthetically investigated in its function as extended metaphor and question for poetry and poetics. Key is a consideration of the use of the language of the 'atomic' in cultural spaces, and in 'the arts'. Indigenous land-rights claims in the face of uranium mining, the semantics of waste and of the glib usage by nuclear power companies of the fact of global warming to suit their own corrosive agendas. The triumphalism of scientific and cultural discourse around 'nuclear' and the threats by nuclear fission are by association brought into question. The nuclear cycle throws the whole future of human beings into doubt, and this book seeks to assemble new resources of resistance through creative and critical mediums, including poetry and poetics.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kinsella, John

Milne, Drew

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Technologien für Fossile Energieträger
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Atomenergietechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Technologie der Oberflächenbeschichtung
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Bergbau, Hüttenwesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Nuclear Theory Degree Zero, with Two Cheers for Derrida

Drew Milne and John Kinsella

1. Beyond Our Nuclear Entanglement: Love, Nuclear Pain and the Whole Damn Thing

Baden Offord

2. The Medical Implications of Fukushima For Medical Students

Helen Caldicott

3. Radioactive Waste and Australia's Aboriginal People

Jim Green

4. "Nuclear Consumed Love" Atomic Threats and Australian Indigenous Activist Poetics

Matthew Hall

Undermining

John Kinsella and Charmaine Papertalk Green

5. That’s Why We Came Here: Feminist Cinema(S) At Greenham Common

Sophie Mayer

Nuclear Song

Drew Milne

6. Poetry After Hiroshima? Notes on Nuclear Implicature

Drew Milne

7. Affective Rhetoric and The Cultural Politics of Determinate Negation

Tom Bristow

Two Poems

John Kinsella

8. Going Nuclear: Notes on Sudden Extinction In What Remains Of Post-Nuclear Criticism

Jonty Tiplady

9. Atomic Guildswomen

Redell Olsen

10. Postludes: Cinema at the End of the World

Louis Armand

11. Bibliographical Resources for Nuclear Criticism

Harriet David

Über Autor(innen)

Drew Milne edited 'Marxist Literary Theory' (Blackwell,1996) with Terry Eagleton and 'Modern Critical Thought' (Blackwell, 2003). He has published numerous essays on critical theory and poetics. His collected poems – 'In Darkest Capital' – were published by Carcanet in 2017. Recent chapbooks include: 'Earthworks' (Equipage, 2018), 'Lichens in Antarctica' (Institute of Electric Crinolines, 2019) and 'Cutting Carbons' (Institute of Electric Crinolines, 2019). He is the Judith E Wilson Reader in Poetics, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK, and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, UK.

John Kinsella’s most recent volumes of poetry include Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015 (Picador, 2016), The Wound (Arc, 2018) and Insomnia (Picador, 2019). His recent fiction includes Lucida Intervalla (novel; Dalkey Archive, 2018) and Hollow Earth (novel; Transit Lounge, 2019). His volumes of criticism include Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley (Liverpool University Press, 2010) and Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Australia.