The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making /

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"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 ac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Masco, Joseph, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
World politics
Threats of violence
Terrorism > Prevention
Nuclear warfare
National security
Emergency management
Terrorism > Prevention.
Emergency management.
Nuclear warfare.
World politics > 21st century.
National security.
Threats of violence.
Electronic books.
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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