Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement
Arcadia, Summer 2023, no. 9
nuclear power
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
A book by Robert A. Jacobs on the meaning, costs, and legacies of our embrace of nuclear weapons and technologies.
Hostage to Nuclear Power Plants: Weekly Funeral Procession Protest at the Wolsong Nuclear Power Plants, Gyeongju, South Korea
Interview with Astrid Eckert, author of West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Astrid Eckert is interviewed on her book, West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands.
Interview with Kate Brown, author of Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Kate Brown is interviewed on her new book, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future.
Kernkraftwerk Gösgen: In the Towering Presence of Nuclear Power
Arcadia, Summer 2020, no. 26
West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
Astrid M. Eckert’s West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.
Imagining a New Eden in the Nuclear West
Arcadia, Spring 2020, no. 9
"Confessing Anthropocene"
Stefan Skrimshire considers the ethical question of how to communicate with future human societies in terms of long-term disposal of radioactive fuel. He proposes that the confessional form (as propagated by Saint Augustine and critiqued by Derrida) may become increasingly pertinent to activists, artists, and faith communities making sense of humanity’s ethical commitments in deep time.
Crosscurrents episode 6: “Climate Change and Energy Futures Workshop”
Episode 6 of Crosscurrents features talks and short interviews from the Climate Change and Energy Futures workshop. The 2018 workshop imagined futures related to climate change and energy, with attention to the social values that underlie decision-making in a carbon-constrained world.