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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:14.4pt 0cm"><font face="Times"><i>Apocalyptica</i> is an <span lang="EN-US">international, </span>interdisciplinary, <span lang="EN-US">open-access</span>, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte
Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University. <o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times">Editors: Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest and Jenny Stümer<o:p></o:p></font></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:3pt 0cm 0cm"><font face="Times"><b><span lang="EN-US">Deadline: Abstracts (250 words) are due <u>Tuesday 9 August 2022 </u></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3pt"><font face="Times"><b><span lang="EN-US">Contact: </span></b><a href="mailto:publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de"><b><span lang="EN-US">publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de</span></b></a><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></font></p>
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<p style="margin:14.4pt 0cm"><font face="Times"><b><span lang="EN-US">Special Issue: Nuclear Ghosts</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:14.4pt"><font face="Times">The derealization of the ‘Other” means that it is neither alive nor dead, but interminably spectral. <o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p style="margin-top:14.4pt;text-align:right" align="right"><font face="Times"><i>Judith Butler</i>, Precarious Life<o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times">Nuclear politics (and anxieties!) are surging once again, negotiating a variety of fantasies, speculations, and suppositions about ‘the end of the world’. Challenging the nuclear
amnesia that has characterized the post-Cold War years, such nuclear imaginaries foretell the fears and desires of a world laid to waste in an effort to popularize the end time politics of the present. Meanwhile scholars such as Karen Barad, Gabriele Schwab,
Elaine Scarry, and Kate Brown have long warned about the systematic silencing of (anti) nuclear debates, theorizing the unfinished business of nuclear disaster and positing a meaningful politics of re-membering nuclear trauma. In this sense, the pressing forward
of nuclear apprehensions in recent years is symptomatic of what Avery Gordon identifies as “ghostly matters” or a particular idea of haunting that allows us to “think through repressed forms of violence that bring ‘something to be done’ in the present.” In
this special issue we want to summon these formations of nuclear ghosts and explore the return of the (repressed) nuclear ethos in popular culture, literature, art, politics, poetry, and philosophy.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times">Nuclear ghosts conjure up a critical moment or point of creative anxiety that exposes the cracks in repressive infrastructures of denial. They draw attention to the onto-epistemological
ruptures and limits of the nuclear project while illuminating the political and sociocultural pressure points of nuclear threat. Nuclear ghosts thus hover at the intersection between the biopolitical and the psychological, between the ecological and the technological,
the political and the intuitive, the present and the absent, then and now, critically evoking the deeply racialized and gendered genealogies of annihilating catastrophes. The ghosts we seek in this issue articulate the entanglements between atomic violence
and the ongoing assaults of colonialism, sexism, capitalism, war, environmental destruction, etc., cathecting the apocalyptic ontologies of past, present, and future. They trouble dominant notions of temporality, space, and even materiality, tormenting the
bruised nuclear unconscious that Derrida once evoked. Nuclear ghosts pay witness to human/posthuman atrocities and acknowledge a specific nuclear work of death as something that is simultaneously blasting and slow, too fast and too close, abstract and real.
Nuclear ghosts, in other words, invoke the spectral domain of apocalyptic imaginaries in their various political scales and urgencies.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times">Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Chernobyl, and Fukushima all mark defining moments in nuclear history that have occupied collective narratives in countless ways (without necessarily
generating lessons). These instances of spectacular (and spectral) extinction have produced eerie points of reference for extraordinary scenes of destruction. At the same time, the slow violence of nuclear testing contradicts notions of exceptional disaster,
precisely because it forces itself upon a lived reality defying linear notions of time and injury. Nuclear violence seeps into the earth, the air, the body. Confounding notions of agency and resolution it mediates post/human sensibilities of haunting apt at
unfolding the cataclysmic endurance of colonialization. The primary targets of these ongoing atrocities have been marginalized states and indigenous peoples in the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia, Australia, Newe Sogobia, the Christmas Islands, Hawaii,
New Mexico and many more. Decolonization, in Eve Tuck’s sense, then, attends to ghosts, confronting the violent denial done to them. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times">We are particular interested in contributions that face up to these nuclear hauntings, engaging the entanglements between political violence and nuclear annihilation as tethered
to specific modes of (Western) domination. What are the cultural politics of nuclear haunting? How do ghosts invoke the gendered and raced violence of nuclear trauma? When and why do nuclear repressions seize to work? How do nuclear politics reconceptualize
notions of temporality and materiality? How do they name the conditions of ontological insecurity and epistemological limits? Under what conditions do nuclear ghosts invite (collective) actions or meaningful narratives about life and death? What does the nuclear
imaginary tell us about past, present, and future endings of the world/worlds? <o:p></o:p></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><font face="Times"><b>Possible contributions might </b><b><span lang="EN-US">explore </span></b><b>the</b><b><span lang="EN-US"> topic of nuclear ghosts in relation to the</span></b><b> following theme</b><b><span lang="EN-US">s
and ideas (the list may serve as inspiration):</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear colonialism (toxicity, sovereignty, slow death)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear reproductive politics (gendered subjectivities, affect, queer perspectives)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear necropolitics (death worlds, race, biopolitics)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Transspecies ethics and posthuman entanglements (scale, matter, agency)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear landscapes (waste, ruins, borderlands, and margins)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear narratives (realism, fiction, poetics)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear imaginaries, motifs, and genres (</span>film, TV, literature, music, comics,
video games, art, theatre, photography<span lang="EN-US">, </span>Sci-Fi, satire, comedy, melodrama, cyberpunk, dystopia and utopia<span lang="EN-US">, etc.)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear temporalities (deep time, molecular time, slow violence, haunting, etc.)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear trauma (the nuclear unconscious, nuclear subjectivities, nuclear memory)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Re-membering nuclear catastrophes (disaster fatigue, nuclear amnesia, repression)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear materialisms (body, pain, senses)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear infrastructure (architecture, design, spatiality)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">The nuclear sublime/ the nuclear mundane</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear diffraction (plurality, superposition, indeterminacy)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Nuclear desire (attachment, melancholy, mourning)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:12pt;text-indent:-18pt"><font face="Times"><span class="Apple-tab-span"></span>·<span> </span><span lang="EN-US">Anti-nuclear movements (nuclear politics and anthropogenic climate disaster)</span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><font face="Times"><span lang="EN-US"><b>Please send your abstract (250 words) alongside a short biographical note (50 words) to</b> </span><a href="mailto:publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de"><b><span lang="EN-US">publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Times">Full papers (8,000-9,000 words) are due 1 November 2022.</font></span></p>
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