Nuclear cultures: irradiated subjects, aesthetics and planetary precarity
In: Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Nuclear Cultures -- Nuclear Cultures -- Literary Fiction -- Survivor/Eyewitness Accounts -- Reportage and Histories -- Visual Texts -- Poetry -- Films -- Auto/biography -- The 'Work' of Nuclear Cultures -- Note -- 2 The Nuclear Subject -- The Irradiated Body -- Toxic Somatography and Atomic Trauma -- Specimen, Spectacle and the Medicalized Somatography -- The Nuclear Community -- Reconstructing the Human -- Apocalyptic Knowledge -- Uncanny Nuclear Subjects -- Notes -- 3 The A-List: Atomic Scientists and Bombmakers -- The Credible Scientist and Reputational Capital -- Epistemic Virtues and Credibility -- Atomic Prosopography -- The Scientific Self -- The Genius and the Atomic Hero -- Nuclear Patriotism -- Charisma and Charismatic Authority -- The Moral Scientist -- Notes -- 4 Irradiated Aesthetics: The Atomic Sublime -- The Atomic Sublime -- An Atomic-Industrial Sublime -- Witnessing the Atomic Sublime -- The Catastrophic Sublime -- The Decadent Sublime -- Temporality and the Catastrophic Sublime -- The Heroic and the Catastrophic Sublime -- Notes -- 5 Planetary Precarity and Anti-Nuclear Cosmopolitanism -- 'One World Or None': Towards Anti-Nuclear Cosmopolitanism -- The (Under)Mining of Land -- Place(ing) Protest -- The Nuclear Terra Nullius -- Exposed: The Nuclearized Non-Human -- Extinction Iconography and the Nuclear Cosmogram -- Near/Extinction Subjects -- Near/Extinction Iconography -- The Nuclear Cosmogram -- Notes -- Bibliography and Filmography -- Index.