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Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android (Hardcover)
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Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android (Hardcover)
Series: Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities
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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 expose 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.
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