Nuclear Cultures: Irradiated Subjects, Aesthetics and Planetary Precarity

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Table of Contents
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Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Nuclear Cultures
	Nuclear Cultures
		Literary Fiction
		Survivor/Eyewitness Accounts
		Reportage and Histories
		Visual Texts
		Poetry
		Films
		Auto/biography
	The ‘Work’ of Nuclear Cultures
	Note
2 The Nuclear Subject
	The Irradiated Body
		Toxic Somatography and Atomic Trauma
			Specimen, Spectacle and the Medicalized Somatography
		The Nuclear Community
			Reconstructing the Human
			Apocalyptic Knowledge
	Uncanny Nuclear Subjects
	Notes
3 The A-List: Atomic Scientists and Bombmakers
	The Credible Scientist and Reputational Capital
		Epistemic Virtues and Credibility
		Atomic Prosopography
	The Scientific Self
		The Genius and the Atomic Hero
		Nuclear Patriotism
		Charisma and Charismatic Authority
	The Moral Scientist
	Notes
4 Irradiated Aesthetics: The Atomic Sublime
	The Atomic Sublime
		An Atomic-Industrial Sublime
		Witnessing the Atomic Sublime
	The Catastrophic Sublime
		The Decadent Sublime
		Temporality and the Catastrophic Sublime
		The Heroic and the Catastrophic Sublime
	Notes
5 Planetary Precarity and Anti-Nuclear Cosmopolitanism
	‘One World Or None’: Towards Anti-Nuclear Cosmopolitanism
	The (Under)Mining of Land
		Place(ing) Protest
		The Nuclear Terra Nullius
	Exposed: The Nuclearized Non-Human
	Extinction Iconography and the Nuclear Cosmogram
		Near/Extinction Subjects
		Near/Extinction Iconography
		The Nuclear Cosmogram
	Notes
Bibliography and Filmography
Index