Introduction Toxic Immanence: Toward Decolonizing Pedagogies of the Nuclear

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Table and Figures ix
4. The Atomic Now xv
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. Toxic Immanence: Toward Decolonizing Pedagogies of the Nuclear 3
7. Aftereffects of Chernobyl and Fukushima
8. “The Future Is Behind Them!”: Post-Apocalypse and the Enduring Nuclear in Post-Soviet Russian Fiction 39
9. From Toxic Lands to Toxic Rumours: Nuclear Accidents, Contaminated Territories, and the Production of (Radio)active Ignorance 59
10. The Fukushima Process 78
11. Fukushima and the Rebuild of Godzilla: Multiplying Media in an Era of Multiplying Disaster 94
12. Repeating, Multiplying: The Ongoing Now of Nuclear Aftereffects 127
13. The Cold War and Post–Cold War Nuclear State and Its Geopolitics: Imaginaries and Contestations
14. Shaking, Trembling, Rattling, Shouting: Seismic Politics in the Nuclear Age 139
15. What Is the Matter with Nuclear Weapons Communication? 151
16. The National Toxic Land/ Labor Conservation Service 175
17. Sounding Out the Nuclear: An Atomic Opera 197
18. Poetry and Anti-Nuclearism: Τεχνη and the “Fundamental Project” 214
19. Fears and the (Nuclear) Apocalypse: Who Is Afraid of What? 231
20. Archaeologies and Heritages
21. Emergency/Salvage Archaeology: Excavating Media and Uranium in the Glen Canyon 237
22. Nuclear Waste as Critical Heritage 262
23. Lingering Radiation: On Violent Pasts and Open-Ended Futures 282
24. Nuclear Aesthetics: Contemporary Art, Nuclear Colonialism, and the Transformation of Life and the Environment
25. Atomic Aborigines: Appropriation and Colonization of Indigenous Australia during British Nuclear Testing 291
26. The Antipodean Stance of Pam Debenham's 1980s Screenprints 309
27. The Immanation-Image: Immanent Experience and Kazakhstan's Socialist and Postsocialist Modernity in Almagul Menlibayeva's Video Installation Transformation (2016) 332
28. The Possibility of a Situated Nuclear Knowledge: Art in Contaminated Sites 373
29. Artists' Contributions
30. Inheritance: Radiant Reflections from Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima 383
31. Nuclear Family: A Poem 424
32. Unmaking the Nuclear Future 429
33. Contributors 433
34. Index 443