The future of fallout, and other episodes in radioactive world-making

著者

• Masco, Joseph

書誌事項

The future of fallout, and other episodes in radioactive world-making

Joseph Masco

Duke University Press, c2021

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to existential danger. Tracking the simultaneous production of nuclear emergency and climate disruption since 1945, he focuses on the psychosocial accommodations as well as the technological revolutions that have produced these linked planetary scale disasters. Masco assesses the memory practices, visual culture, concepts of danger, and toxic practices that, in combination, have generated a US national security culture that promises ever more safety and comfort in everyday life but does so only by generating, and deferring, a vast range of violences into the collective future. Interrogating how this existential lag (i.e., the material and conceptual fallout of the Twentieth century in form of nuclear weapons and petrochemical capitalism) informs life in the Twenty-first century, Masco identifies key moments where other futures were still possible, and seeks

内容説明・目次

内容説明

In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to existential danger. Tracking the simultaneous production of nuclear emergency and climate disruption since 1945, he focuses on the psychosocial accommodations as well as the technological revolutions that have produced these linked planetary-scale disasters. Masco assesses the memory practices, visual culture, concepts of danger, and toxic practices that, in combination, have generated a U.S. national security culture that promises ever more safety and comfort in everyday life but does so only by generating and deferring a vast range of violences into the collective future. Interrogating how this existential lag (i.e., the material and conceptual fallout of the twentieth century in the form of nuclear weapons and petrochemical capitalism) informs life in the twenty-first century, Masco identifies key moments when other futures were still possible and seeks to activate an alternative, postnational security political imaginary in support of collective life today.

目次

Acknowledgments vii Prologue 1 1. Age of Fallout 17 I. Dreaming Deserts and Death Machines 2. 5:29:45 a.m. 45 3. States of Insecurity 51 4. Desert Modernism 83 5. The Billboard Campaign 113 II. Bunkers and Psyches 6. Rehearsing the End 127 7. Life Underground 137 8. Atomic Health 157 9. End of Ends 179 III. Celluloid Nightmares 10. Target Audience 199 11. The Age of (a) Man 219 12. Catastrophe's Apocalypse 237 13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback 265 IV. After Counterrevolution 14. Shaking, Trembling, Shouting 287 15. "Active Measures" 301 16. Boundless Informant 319 17. The Crisis in Crisis 339 Epilogue: An Alternate 363 "What If" Acknowledgments 371 Notes 37 References 389 Index 415

「Nielsen BookData」 より

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC02095924
• ISBN:
  • 9781478011149
• LCCN: 2020018847
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Durham
• ページ数/冊数: 431 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HV6431
  • DC23 : 355/.033073
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Threats of violence
  • LCSH : National security
  • LCSH : World politics -- 21st century
  • LCSH : Nuclear warfare
  • LCSH : Emergency management
  • LCSH : Terrorism -- Prevention