...Bradley J. Fest This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite...

...Tom Looser For some time now, Japan has been teetering on the point of fundamental, historical transformation. Neoliberalist contractions, natural catastrophes, and the nuclear disaster have contributed to an era of crisis that is local to Japan, while they are also an ongoing bellwether of global...

... of history, especially his interrogations of human temporality in the 1930s. Miki's idea of the binary of genzai (the present) and gendai (the modern) that he developed during wartime resembles the duality of everyday experience in the postearthquake nuclear crisis of the current century. Simultaneously...

... questions: “Why did Japan dare to introduce nuclear power after Hiroshima and Nagasaki and “Why would Japanese not rise up after Fukushima?” The former is one of sad wonderment—the shock of the tragic and absurd repetition of nuclear devastation—while the latter expresses activist frustration about...

... . Whistleblowers and the Bomb: Vanunu, Israel, and Nuclear Secrecy . London : Pluto Press . Cohn Carol . 1987 . “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals.” Signs 12 , no. 4 : 687 – 718 . Deleuze Gilles Guattari Félix . 1987 . A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism...

... movement and a lack of confidence in representative democracy, the burden to address citizens' concerns has shifted to social movements. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 postwar Japanese politics politics of memories civil movements Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Tōhoku earthquake...

... going to be hopelessly inadequate defenses against nuclear attack, but habits of preparation and response were designed not so much to save lives as to discipline a population otherwise prone to panic. This may have worked. Peterson’s office had declared a year earlier that “sixty-­four mil- lion...

..., 2015, www.newsvine.com (originally appeared in Mod- ern Tokyo Times, March 15, 2011, moderntokyotimes.com). Harootunian / Japan Dossier / Reflections from Fukushima 27 been as damaging as nature’s ill-tempered­ ferocity. This history has shown that TEPCO built the nuclear plants...

...), and Specu- lative Formalism: Literature, Theory, and the Critical Present (forthcoming). He is an assistant editor of boundary 2. Bradley J. Fest is a visiting lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh. At present, he is working on “The Nuclear Archive: American Literature...

... fewer kinship ties with distant relatives and a greater emphasis on the ‘nuclear’ family unit of couple and children.”4 Goode’s argument has been challenged by a series of historical studies 2. A number of studies of family life in urban China have documented important changes in this respect...

... in English from the Uni- versity of Pittsburgh, where he is currently a visiting postdoctoral lecturer. He is currently working on a project investigating the relationship between nuclear and information technology in twentieth-century­ American literature, and on a theoreti- cal project on poetic...

... language and instead hail the virtues of regime changes, preemptive war, unilater- alism, tactical nuclear weapons, shock and awe, iron hammers, and, most important of all, the need for the rest of the world to fear us. They accept war as the natural state of mankind and low-intensity conflict...

... . “ The Buildup of a Nuclear Armament Capability and the Postwar Statehood of Japan: Fukushima and the Genealogy of Nuclear Bombs and Power Plants .” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 14 , no. 2 : 171 – 212 . Nguyen Viet . 2005 . “ Review of Don Lee’s Yellow .” Amerasia Journal 31 , no. 2 : 190...

... of the three, Korea is the only country where one half belongs to the Good and the other half to Evil. Moreover, North Korea does not deny that it can develop nuclear weapons, and it is even boasting about it. Therefore the Korean Peninsula has an additional reason for being a singular place: here war...

... contemptuous of the nuclear near-monopoly held by the world’s paper tiger. Politics, Geopolitics, and the Sino-Soviet Split The development of a party into a State reacts upon the party and requires of it a continuous reorganization and development, just...

... in Recessionary Japan 173 duction, my interviews with photographers reveal that it was precisely the desire to disengage from normative gender role models that drove women to photography. As opposed to Iizawa, who saw in women’s photography an effort to revitalize the nuclear family, female photographers...

... news headlines, beginning with its third nuclear arms test and ending at the conclusion of the joint exercises. Each piece takes its title from that day’s news reports. boundary 2 42:4 (2015) DOI 10.1215/01903659-­3156105 © 2015 by Sueyeun Juliette Lee 74 boundary 2 / November 2015 to move...

... of the speech was: that Japan must stop fighting, that the two nuclear bombs that fell on Japan are too terrible and cruel to go on fighting, that Japan must acquiesce to its enemies and “endure the unendurable”—and all of this in order for the nation and the Imperial Household to survive. The imperial...

... is currently working on his dissertation, “The Apocalypse Archive: American Literature and the Nuclear Bomb.” He has a forthcoming chap- ter in the collection The Silence of Fallout. His poems have appeared in Spork, Open Thread, BathHouse, Flywheel, and elsewhere. He blogs at The Hyperarchival...

... the Fukushima nuclear disaster, he coedited the website jfissures.org and has written several articles in English on the problematic of postnuclear-­disaster society, which can be found at th-rough.eu/writers/sabu-­ ­kohso and www.borderlands.net.au/vol11no2 _2012/kohso_radiation.htm. Thomas Lamarre...