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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 375–390.
Published: 01 November 2008
... film was informed throughout the period of its creation by the differences in political and cultural attitudes toward the nuclear threat that existed between the US and the UK during the Cold War. This allowed the film to act as a reflection of the shift in the general understanding of the nuclear...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 337–350.
Published: 01 November 2008
... of the early Cold War. The suburban home emerges not as a place of retreat from the uncertainties of a newly nuclear and threatening world, but as a crucible in which contemporary anxieties can only be imperfectly contained. Merril nuclear Cold War America domestic Judith Merril’s Shadow...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
...John Beck; Mark Dorrian Space colonization and subterranean dwelling have been staples of speculative fiction since at least the nineteenth century, but the invention of nuclear weapons and the prospect of global environmental collapse have, certainly since the Cold War, made proposals offering...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 309–329.
Published: 01 November 2008
... Humbert is read through the lens of Cold War anxieties about radiation, missile attack through the DEW Line and a “mapping” of America by subversive aliens. Lolita herself is the Uranium Girl, radiant child of nuclear America under threat from the death ray of the bomb’s fallout. © BERG 2008 PRINTED...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2021
... a devastating war to occur. The message from the future is that survival requires an end to thinking that issues like nuclear weapons are too big and only of concern to others. Shute does not dismiss the unimaginative, though, and is able to see in the attachment to the rules and conventions of a dead world...
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Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 70–91.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . “ The Nod Pole: Inside Facebook’s Swedish Hub near the Arctic Circle .” Guardian , September 25 . Jonter Thomas . 2016 . The Key to Nuclear Restraint: The Swedish Plan to Acquire Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Olterman Philip . 2017 . “ Sweden...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 269–288.
Published: 01 November 2008
... on Terror, through simulation and its heightened constitution of projectile identification: creating targets, targeting targets, watching targets, and striking targets. If Baudrillard has established simulation as the sine qua non of the Cold War, and “the nuclear” as its “apotheosis” (1994: 32...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (2): 253–258.
Published: 01 July 2016
... at Cornell University in 1984. The year is indicative of the world picture that formed the backdrop to Derrida’s intervention: the world in the midst of the Cold War, where both the United States and the Soviet Union were caught up in a nuclear arms race, arming themselves with nuclear weapons capable...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (2): 245–254.
Published: 01 July 2006
... at a time when US bombing campaigns are being carried out relentlessly. While we may imagine and try to believe that the wars are happening “over there,” they are always begun here at home. The first nuclear test was in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The cancer rate on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico ( plate 8...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (2): 233–242.
Published: 01 July 2005
... before, arming itself for operations in the Gulf. On breakfast television the next day I caught some of the live footage of troops entering Saddam Hussein's palace. The media spectacle located the war very far from here – this war about the illicit possession of nuclear arms. The next day I...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2011
... are based on then recently declassified United States (US) government photographs and film stills of Cold War era nuclear tests carried out in the Southwest of the US and the Pacific. Between 1995 and 1999, under President Clinton, the Freedom of Information Act was amended to allow the release...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 261–268.
Published: 01 November 2008
... the country – include “oddly rendered rocks” which return as disturbing blobs in Humphrey’s artwork. We might think of the legacy of the Cold War in terms of such rocks, cold and hot. The former include the moon rocks, trophies of the space race doled out to Western museums by NASA; or alternatively...
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (3): 389–391.
Published: 01 November 2010
..., explicated . As Sloterdijk states, “The discovery of the ‘environment’ took place in the trenches of World War I” (p. 18). In the same vein, describing in great detail this shift from classical warfare to chemical war, he produces a preliminary definition of terrorism as “the maximal explication of the other...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 119–134.
Published: 01 March 2005
...; they lead back to the cultures and ideologies that produced them, as well as to the discourses that theorize and obsess over them. My interest in Cold War era nuclear test shots led me away from the realm of pure science – photomicroscopy, medicine, astronomy and such – into the unfamiliar areas...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 79–102.
Published: 01 March 2011
.... Thomas Roger J.C. 2003 . Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946–89 . Swindon : English Heritage . Colomina Beatriz 2006 . Domesticity at War . Barcelona : Actar . DeLillo Don 1997 . Underworld . London : Picador . Diller Elizabeth Scofidio Ricardo...
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 March 2006
... this is inscribed in the built environment. Guy considers the “shadow architectures” of specific sites and spaces such as the Reichstag and the Berlin Wall. In a rather different way, Matthew Farish analyzes how the Cold War nuclear threat shaped urban planning practices and understandings. The initial shadow cast...
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Cultural Politics (2023) 19 (3): 297–317.
Published: 01 November 2023
... ( 2013 : 37–56) discusses the links between the Cold War, computational economies, and the erasure of futural horizons in a chapter entitled “Pharmacology of Nuclear Fire, General Automation, and Total Proletarianization.” The emergence of the “real-time” technologies necessary for the conduct of global...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 155–160.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Gair Dunlop If war is conducted largely on the field of logistics, how is the necessary level of involvement in the administrative staff maintained? How do those left behind on the ground remind themselves of how and why they fight? Abandoned office spaces on disbanded squadron facilities may give...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (3): 280–295.
Published: 01 November 2013
... running at hyperspeed. Virilio argues that financial panics have replaced the nuclear-fueled panics of yesteryear. He suggests that of all the risks that assail us—terrorist attack, environmental ruin, and so forth—we are particularly threatened by “a tyrannical political economics” ( 2012c: 62 ). While...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 100–110.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., http://www.darpa.mil . Accessed December 8 . Edwards Paul . 1997 . The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America . Cambridge MA : MIT Press . Ellul Jacques . 1964 . The Technological Society. Translated by John Wilkinson . New York : Knopf...
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