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Author Schwab, Gabriele, author

Title Radioactive ghosts / Gabriele Schwab
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 339 pages) : illustrations
Series Posthumanities ; 61
Posthumanities ; 61.
Contents 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
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."-- Preface
"A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis nuclearism nuclear imaginary Haunting (Philosophy)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 26, 2020)
Subject Nuclear warfare -- Philosophy
Nuclear accidents -- Psychological aspects
Radioactive pollution -- Philosophy
Death -- Political aspects
Psychic trauma -- Social aspects
Nuclear energy -- Philosophy
Nuclear weapons -- Philosophy
Nuclear weapons -- Moral and ethical aspects
Nuclear industry -- Moral and ethical aspects
Nuclear waste -- Philosophy
HISTORY / Military / Nuclear Warfare
Death -- Political aspects
Nuclear energy -- Philosophy
Nuclear industry -- Moral and ethical aspects
Nuclear warfare -- Philosophy
Nuclear weapons -- Moral and ethical aspects
Psychic trauma -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020024769
ISBN 9781452961446
1452961441
9781452961439
1452961433