[csaa-forum] New Issue of Angelaki 22.3

[Baden Offord]

Now Out 22.3
special issue:
Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android
issue editors:
John Kinsella, Drew Milne

This special issue of Angelaki investigates the threat conveyed and maintained by the nuclear cycle: mining, research, health, power generation and weaponry. Central to the articulation of a report on the infiltration of our lives and control over them exerted by the industrial-military-research complex are critiques of the creation, storage and use of atomic weapons and the litany of accidents at nuclear facilities. All writing of the nuclear is done amid shadows over shadows of contamination and destruction. “Nuclear” is also investigated in its function as extended metaphor, with a consideration of the language of the “atomic” in the arts – especially in poetry, film, and fiction – and the implications of this. Underpinning this collection of diverse essays by practitioners, theorists, activists and poets with diverse ways of viewing the “subject” is the observation of the impact on the planet of “cradle to grave” nuclear cycle thinking. The colonial exploitation of land for experimentation, the abuse of people through toxicity of nuclear acts, and the resilience of indigenous landrights claims in the face of uranium mining are a constant in this discussion. The issue was prepared in the shadows – with the facts of the repercussions of nuclear weapons testing, and the clock sitting close to midnight. 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 are also facts of the now. The triumphalism of scientific and cultural discourse around the nuclear is brought into question, with the entire process being criticised as one of weaponisation and ecological damage. The nuclear cycle throws the future of human beings into doubt, and this issue seeks to assemble new resources of resistance.

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/22/3


Professor Baden Offord
Director | Dr Haruhisa Handa Chair of Human Rights Education
Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights
Centre for Human Rights Education | Faculty of Humanities

Curtin University
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