The future of fallout, and other episodes in radioactive world-making /

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"Joseph Masco examines the psychosocial, material, and affective consequences of the advent of nuclear weapons, the Cold War security state, climate change on contemporary US democratic practices and public imaginaries."--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Masco, Joseph, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Threats of violence.
National security.
World politics > 21st century.
Nuclear warfare.
Emergency management.
Terrorism > Prevention.
Nuclear Warfare
Menaces de violence.
Politique mondiale > 21e siècle.
Guerre nucléaire.
Terrorisme > Prévention.
nuclear wars.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Emergency management
National security
Nuclear warfare
Terrorism > Prevention
Threats of violence
World politics
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Age of Fallout
  • Part I: Dreaming Deserts and Death Machines
  • 5:29:45 a.m.
  • States of Insecurity
  • Desert Modernism
  • The Billboard Campaign
  • Part II: Bunkers and Psyches
  • Rehearsing the End
  • Life Underground
  • Atomic Health
  • End of Ends
  • Part III: Celluloid Nightmares
  • Target Audience
  • The Age of (a) Man
  • Catastrophe's Apocalypse
  • Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback
  • Part IV: Surviving the Counterrevolution
  • Shaking, Trembling, Shouting
  • "Active Measures"
  • Boundless Informant
  • The Crisis in Crisis
  • iv
  • Epilogue: An Alternate "What If."

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