The Silence Of Fallout

Author : Michael Blouin,Morgan Shipley,Jack Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443868037

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The Silence of Fallout by Michael Blouin,Morgan Shipley,Jack Taylor Pdf

This collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear Criticism perpetually re-surfaces in theoretical circles. Given the recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the ripple of anti-nuclear sentiment the event created, as well as the discursive maneuvers that took place in the aftermath, we might pause to reflect upon Nuclear Criticism and its place in contemporary scholarship (and society at-large). Scholars who were active in earlier expressions of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent scholars likewise striving to negotiate the field moving forward. This volume revolves around these dialogic moments of agreement and departure; refusing the silence of complacency, the authors renew this conversation while taking it in exciting new directions. As political paradigms shift and awareness of nuclear issues manifests in alternative forms, the collected essays establish groundwork for future generations caught in a perpetual struggle with legacies of the nuclear.

Author : Allie McNeil
Publisher : Author House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781468529913

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Silent Fallout by Allie McNeil Pdf

Silent Fallout explores what happens when a small town and country fights back when there is industrial contamination.

Author : Lesley M.M. Blume
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982128555

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Fallout by Lesley M.M. Blume Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century—the true effects of the atom bomb—potentially saving millions of lives. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands during the months after the blast. For nearly a year the cover-up worked—until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world. As Hersey and his editors prepared his article for publication, they kept the story secret—even from most of their New Yorker colleagues. When the magazine published “Hiroshima” in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. This knowledge has remained among the greatest deterrents to using them since the end of World War II. Released on the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, Fallout is an engrossing detective story, as well as an important piece of hidden history that shows how one heroic scoop saved—and can still save—the world.

Author : Julia Fiedorczuk,Mary Newell,Bernard Quetchenbach,Orchid Tierney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000952537

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The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics by Julia Fiedorczuk,Mary Newell,Bernard Quetchenbach,Orchid Tierney Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections: Perspectives: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approaches; Experiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crises; Earth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systems; Waste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate change; Environmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural change; Region and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; and Subjectivities/Affects/Sexualities: investigations of gender, ethnicity, and race as they intersect with ecological concerns. Each section includes an overview and summary addressing the specific essays in the section. These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Contributions from leading scholars working across the globe make The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.

Author : Livia Monnet
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228013266

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Toxic Immanence by Livia Monnet Pdf

More than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, what we are witnessing is not a Second Nuclear Age – there is no post-atomic – but an uncanny, quiet return of the nuclear threat that so vividly animated the Cold War era. The renewed threat of nuclear proliferation, public complacency regarding weapons stockpiles, and the lack of a single functioning long-term repository after seventy years and thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste reveals the industry’s capacity for self-reinvention abetted by an ever-present capacity to forget. More than “fabulously textual,” as Jacques Derrida described it, the protean, unbound, and unending materiality of the nuclear is here to stay: resistance is crucial. Toxic Immanence introduces contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives that resist and decolonize the nuclear. Contributors highlight the prevalence and irrationality of slow violence and colonial governance as elements of the contemporary nuclear age. They propose a reappraisal of Cold War-era anti-nuclear art as well as pop culture representations of nuclear disaster, while decolonizing pedagogies advance the role of education in communicating and understanding the lethality of nuclear complexes. Collectively, the essays develop a robust critical discourse across fields of nuclear knowledge and integrate the work of the nuclear humanities with environmental justice and Indigenous rights activism. This reach across ways of knowing extends artistically: the poetry and photography included in this volume offer visions of past and present nuclear legacies. Conceived as a critical reflection on the potential of nuclear humanities, Toxic Immanence offers intellectual strategies for resisting and abolishing the global nuclear regime.

Author : Daniel Goldberg
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781609806408

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The State of Play by Daniel Goldberg Pdf

FEATURING: IAN BOGOST - LEIGH ALEXANDER - ZOE QUINN - ANITA SARKEESIAN & KATHERINE CROSS - IAN SHANAHAN - ANNA ANTHROPY - EVAN NARCISSE - HUSSEIN IBRAHIM - CARA ELLISON & BRENDAN KEOGH - DAN GOLDING - DAVID JOHNSTON - WILLIAM KNOBLAUCH - MERRITT KOPAS - OLA WIKANDER The State of Play is a call to consider the high stakes of video game culture and how our digital and real lives collide. Here, video games are not hobbies or pure recreation; they are vehicles for art, sex, and race and class politics. The sixteen contributors are entrenched—they are the video game creators themselves, media critics, and Internet celebrities. They share one thing: they are all players at heart, handpicked to form a superstar roster by Daniel Goldberg and Linus Larsson, the authors of the bestselling Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus "Notch" Persson and the Game that Changed Everything. The State of Play is essential reading for anyone interested in what may well be the defining form of cultural expression of our time. "If you want to explain to anyone why videogames are worth caring about, this is a single volume primer on where we are, how we got here and where we're going next. In every way, this is the state of play." —Kieron Gillen, author of The Wicked + the Divine, co-founder of Rock Paper Shotgun

Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192846167

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Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s by David L. Pike Pdf

Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades studies the two periods in which Americans were actively encouraged to excavate their own backyards while governments the world over exhausted their budgets on fortified super-shelters and megaton bombs. The dreams and nightmares inspired by the spectre of nuclear destruction were expressed in images and forms from comics, movies, and pulp paperbacks to policy documents, protest movements, and survivalist tracts. Illustrated with photographs, artwork, and movie and television stills of real and imagined fallout shelters and other bunker fantasies, award-winning author David L. Pike's continues his decades-long exploration of the meanings of modern undergrounds. Ranging widely across disciplines, this volume finds unexpected connections between cultural icons and forgotten texts, plumbs the bunker's stratifications of class, region, race, and gender, and traces the often unrecognized through-lines leading from the 1960s and the less-studied 1980s into the present. Although the Cold War ended over 30 years ago, its legacy looms large in anxieties around security, borders, and all manners of imminent apocalypse. Treating the bunker in its concrete presence and in its flightiest fantasies while attending equally to its uniquely American desires and pathologies and to its global impact, Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s proposes a new way to understand the outsized afterlife of the bunkered decades.

Author : Joseph Masco
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478012665

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The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making by Joseph Masco Pdf

In The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Joseph Masco examines the strange American intimacy with and commitment to existential danger. Tracking the simultaneous production of nuclear emergency and climate disruption since 1945, he focuses on the psychosocial accommodations as well as the technological revolutions that have produced these linked planetary-scale disasters. Masco assesses the memory practices, visual culture, concepts of danger, and toxic practices that, in combination, have generated a U.S. national security culture that promises ever more safety and comfort in everyday life but does so only by generating and deferring a vast range of violences into the collective future. Interrogating how this existential lag (i.e., the material and conceptual fallout of the twentieth century in the form of nuclear weapons and petrochemical capitalism) informs life in the twenty-first century, Masco identifies key moments when other futures were still possible and seeks to activate an alternative, postnational security political imaginary in support of collective life today.

Author : Rick Anthony
Publisher : Rick Anthony
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Silent Code: A Sci-Fi Spy Thriller by Rick Anthony Pdf

In a world veiled by intrigue and cloaked in secrecy, where the boundaries between truth and deception blur, a trio of unlikely heroes emerges. Dominic Hargrove, a seasoned spy with a haunted past; Emilia Kessler, a brilliant scientist driven by curiosity and a hunger for justice; and Jean-Luc Perrault, a steadfast figure of integrity in the complex web of international law enforcement. Together, they navigate a landscape riddled with shadows and secrets, embarking on a mission that will test their resolve, their skills, and their very principles. This is a tale of science fiction and espionage, a thrilling journey through the realms of intrigue and danger. Within the pages of this story, the world teeters on the brink of chaos as a nefarious conspiracy unravels, threatening to unleash untold devastation. At its heart lies a seismic weapon, a technology capable of triggering catastrophic events with the flick of a switch. As the web of conspiracy tightens, Hargrove, Emilia, and Perrault find themselves entangled in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse, pursued by a relentless enemy willing to stop at nothing to protect their dark ambitions. In their quest for truth and justice, they must navigate treacherous alliances, confront their own inner demons, and make unimaginable sacrifices. From the shadowy corridors of power to the frozen depths of Siberia, their journey takes them across continents, their every step shrouded in danger and uncertainty. Each chapter unravels a new layer of mystery, propelling them closer to the heart of the conspiracy while revealing the intricate connections between science, espionage, and the human spirit. In this science fiction spy thriller, the boundaries of possibility are pushed to their limits. The story dances on the precipice of reality, exploring the darker side of human nature and the resilience of the human spirit. Prepare to be immersed in a world where the line between hero and villain blurs, where secrets lie at every turn, and where the fate of nations hangs in the balance. Join Hargrove, Emilia, and Perrault as they unravel the enigma, race against time, and confront the shadows that threaten to consume their world. Their journey will challenge them in ways they never imagined, forcing them to question their loyalties, test their limits, and ultimately define their own destinies. Welcome to a world of secrets, spies, and the eternal struggle between truth and deception. Welcome to a science fiction spy thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page is turned.

Author : Joe Trotta,Zlatan Filipovic,Houman Sadri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000753981

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Broken Mirrors by Joe Trotta,Zlatan Filipovic,Houman Sadri Pdf

Dystopian stories and visions of the Apocalypse are nothing new; however in recent years there has been a noticeable surge in the output of this type of theme in literature, art, comic books/graphic novels, video games, TV shows, etc. The reasons for this are not exactly clear; it may partly be as a result of post 9/11 anxieties, the increasing incidence of extreme weather and/or environmental anomalies, chaotic fluctuations in the economy and the uncertain and shifting political landscape in the west in general. Investigating this highly topical and pervasive theme from interdisciplinary perspectives this volume presents various angles on the main topic through critical analyses of selected works of fiction, film, TV shows, video games and more.

Author : Daniel Cordle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137513083

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Late Cold War Literature and Culture by Daniel Cordle Pdf

This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction. Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children’s and young adult literature, thrillers and horror, it shows how pressing nuclear issues were, particularly the possibility of nuclear war, and how deeply they penetrated the culture. It is innovative for its discussion of a “nuclear transatlantic,” placing British and American texts in dialogue with one another, for its identification of a vibrant young adult fiction that resonates with more conventionally studied literatures of the period and for its analysis of a “politics of vulnerability” animating nuclear debates. Placing nuclear literature in social and historical contexts, it shows how novels and short stories responded not only to nuclear fears, but also crystallised contemporary debates about issues of gender, the environment, society and the economy.

Author : Plavelil George Eapen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : India
ISBN : 8130931001

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The Silence of the Many by Plavelil George Eapen Pdf

Author : Kimberly Roberson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-17
Category : Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011
ISBN : 1482551152

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Silence Deafening by Kimberly Roberson Pdf

"Facts are facts. There have been three major nuclear power disasters to date: Three Mile Island in 1979, Chernobyl in 1986, and now Fukushima Daiichi in 2011 ... and there are many more smaller nuclear accidents and near misses every year. Do we wait for another catastrophic event, or do we act now? Nuclear fallout is a harmful and mysterious tragedy that we can't see, taste, hear, smell or feel. Rather than recoil in fear from Fukushima Daiichi, it really only serves to empower us into further action. This book is a mother's account of dealing with radioactive fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, the worst in world history. This book speaks to the urgent need for food monitoring, conservation and renewable energy, as radiation from nuclear power is now migrating into our homes and kitchens"--Page 4 of cover

Author : Stefan Halper,Jonathan Clarke
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780786722297

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The Silence of the Rational Center by Stefan Halper,Jonathan Clarke Pdf

What has happened to American foreign policy? Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke argue that the members of what used to be called the foreign policy establishment are no longer doing the job of keeping our foreign policy informed and rational. Instead, hungry to coin the next Big Idea, they are in the business of advancing simplistic, glib mythologies. The result is that Americans are often presented with a fantasy world of nightmare scenarios rather than with explanations that lead to rational choices. Taking to task such well-known figures as Samuel Huntington, Noam Chomsky, and Jeffrey Sachs, Halper and Clarke argue for a revival of integrity within our foreign policy elite so that America's standing in the world can be restored. A book that pulls no punches, The Silence of the Rational Center is both a penetrating diagnosis and a stirring call to reform in what is possibly the most important area of American political life.

Author : Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473693555

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The Fallout by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Pdf

'A magnificent writer' KARIN SLAUGHTER A murdered woman. A missing child. And a father intent on revenge. On a cold day in Reykjavik, a baby goes missing from her pram. When the child's blanket washes up on the beach, and the mother is found dead, everyone's worst fears seem to have been realised. Eleven years later, and detective Huldar and child psychologist Freyja are now working in the same police building, on the same team. Freyja believes that personal and professional relationships must remain separate, however hard that may be. But when a woman's dismembered body is found in a deserted car, her head missing, and Freyja and Huldar find themselves working on the same case, the secrecy around their affair threatens to crack. And when Freyja is accused of a serious breach of police protocol, will Huldar be able to help her? Meanwhile, their search to identify the body takes the case back into secrets of the past, and the unspoken crimes that bind three separate families. The Silence is the gripping and terrifying new novel from the acclaimed author of international bestsellers The Doll and Gallows Rock.