Radioactive ghosts

by Schwab, Gabriele

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Title Statements

Full title :Radioactive ghosts / Gabriele Schwab.

Summary

"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 on nuclear subjectivities also counters the current neglect of psychopolitics in political as well as ecological debates about nuclearism. Radioactive Ghosts presents steps toward a first comprehensive psychological theory of nuclear subjectivities with the hope to inspire further work in this direction."--

"A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Minnesota Press
Place of Publication:Minneapolis
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxi, 339 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781452961446, 1452961441, 9781452961439, 1452961433
oclc:on1159660701
LC Classification:PN56.N83
Dewey Decimal:355.02/1701

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.

Subjects

Accidents nucléaires -- Aspect psycholo… Armes nucléaires -- Aspect moral Armes nucléaires -- Philosophie Death -- Political aspects Énergie nucléaire -- Philosophie Guerre nucléaire -- Philosophie HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare Industrie nucléaire -- Aspect moral Mort -- Aspect politique Nuclear accidents -- Psychological aspe… Nuclear energy -- Philosophy Nuclear industry -- Moral and ethical a… Nuclear warfare -- Philosophy Nuclear waste -- Philosophy Nuclear weapons -- Moral and ethical as… Nuclear weapons -- Philosophy nuclearism Pollution radioactive -- Philosophie Psychic trauma -- Social aspects Radioactive pollution -- Philosophy