Radioactive ghosts
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Radioactive ghosts
（Posthumanities, 61）
University of Minnesota Press, c2020
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Description
A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
Amid resurgent calls for widespread nuclear energy and “limited nuclear war,” the populations that must live with the consequences of these decisions are increasingly insecure. The nuclear peril combined with the looming threat of climate change means that we are seeing the formation of a new kind of subjectivity: humans who are in a position of perpetual ontological insecurity. In Radioactive Ghosts, Gabriele Schwab articulates a vision of these “nuclear subjectivities” that we all live with.
Focusing on the legacies of the Manhattan Project, Hiroshima, and nuclear energy politics, Radioactive Ghosts takes us on a tour of the little-seen sides of our nuclear world. Examining devastating uranium mining on Native lands, nuclear sacrifice zones, the catastrophic accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima, and the formation of a new transspecies ethics, Schwab shows how individuals threatened with extinction are creating new adaptations, defenses, and communal spaces. Ranging from personal accounts of experiences with radiation to in-depth readings of literature, film, art, and scholarly works, Schwab gives us a complex, idiosyncratic, and personal analysis of one of the most overlooked issues of our time.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface: Of Three-Eyed Fish and Other Ghostings
Introduction: Why Nuclear Necropolitics Today?
Part I. Nuclear Subjectivities
1. No Apocalypse, Not Now: Derrida and the Nuclear Unconscious
2. Nuclear Colonialism
3. Critical Nuclear Race Theory
4. The Gender of Nuclear Subjectivities
Interlude: Children of the Nuclear Age
With Simon J. Ortiz
Part II. Haunting from the Future
5. The Afterlife of Nuclear Catastrophes
6. Hiroshima’s Ghostly Shadows
7. Postnuclear Madness and Nuclear Crypts
8. Transspecies Selves: Intimacies, Extimacies, Animacies
Coda: Postnuclear Ecologies: Language, Body, and Affect in Beckett’s Happy Days
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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