Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate (Environment and Society)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	1.1 We’ve Made a World We Cannot Control . . .
	1.2 . . . Thus, Muddling Through Is the Best We Can Do
	1.3 Approach
	1.4 How This Book Is Organized
	Notes
Chapter 1: Ironic Encounters in Nuclear Landscape Photography
	1.1 Locating the Irony in Fluffy Clouds
	1.2 Of Viewers and Victims
	1.3 New Topographics and Irony
	1.4 Of Sheep and Cooling Towers
	1.5 Ironic Self-Encounters
	1.6 Returning to the World
	Notes
Chapter 2: Snapshots from the Zone
	2.1 Rendering Nuclear Disaster Invisible
	2.2 The Self-Aware Image
	2.3 Blurry Photographs
	2.4 A Social Practice
	2.5 Samosely Revisited
	2.6 The Art of Living in Ruins
	Notes
Chapter 3: The Art to Remain Exposed
	3.1 A Technicist Disaster
	3.2 The Radiant
	3.3 Re-Volt
	3.4 Finger Pointing Worker
	3.5 Bending the Rules
	3.6 Exposure
	Notes
Chapter 4: How to Care for Nuclear Waste?
	4.1 Nuclear Waste as a Communication Problem
	4.2 Culture Solves What Technology Cannot?
	4.3 Art and RK&M
	4.4 Viral Fictions
	4.5 A Marker for Halde Stolzenberg
	4.6 How to Really Care for Nuclear Waste?
	4.7 Postscript: A Note on Mythology
	Notes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author