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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 1 Unknown Fields at work in the London Sculpture Workshop. The mud taken from a radioactive tailings lake in Inner Mongolia contains a cocktail of acids, heavy metals, carcinogens, and radioactive material.
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 376–379.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Figure 1 Unknown Fields at work in the London Sculpture Workshop. The mud taken from a radioactive tailings lake in Inner Mongolia contains a cocktail of acids, heavy metals, carcinogens, and radioactive material. ...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 309–329.
Published: 01 November 2008
... the war, through its Atomic Energy Control Board, lifted the private prospecting ban and offered incentives to private prospectors in 1946. This ushered in the “uranium rush,” leading to over 10,000 radioactive ore discoveries, most surreally at Uranium City on Saskatchewan’s Lake Athabasca. What wartime...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 261–268.
Published: 01 November 2008
... are reflected in the texts examined here. They share a sense of an imaginative landscape become uncertain and paradoxical, just as radioactivity – arguably the dominant figure of the period – rendered matter unstable: a landscape in which desire might be deadly and secret, history poisoned, cities shadowed...
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (3): 337–350.
Published: 01 November 2008
... daughter, Ginny, from radiation sickness, contracted in the “clean” environment from a seemingly innocuous toy horse, contaminated by radioactive rain but given to the child to comfort her at night. Gladys, too, has an appearance that conceals the reality underneath. Waiting for her children to return...
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Published: 01 November 2016
Figure 4 Baotou, China, 2014: film still from Rare Earthenware (2014) showing Unknown Fields collecting radioactive mud from the tailings lake at the outflow of Baogang Iron and Steel Corporation. The mud was used to craft the set of three ceramic vessels.
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 167–170.
Published: 01 March 2012
... across novels like Martin Cruz Smith's Nightwing , and Beck sees these forces as the “toxic remainder” of a Western history that refuses to be buried and returns as “a new, radioactive order of postnatural resistance” (184). Resistance in elaborate form is also found in Silko's Almanac of the Dead...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (1): 27–30.
Published: 01 March 2005
... that if interactivity is to information what radioactivity is to energy, then it is deterrence that changes in nature: military deterrence or civil deterrence? What we have here, then, is no longer the transcending of geopolitics or a return to poliorcetics but a genuine push to the limits, a movement to extremes...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 480–483.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Schuppli, in her masterful and engaging book, Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence , encourages us to be receptive to the way materials, from radioactive particles to radio waves, can be enlisted to testify—to speak on their own behalf—and to what they tell us about aesthetics, representation...
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Cultural Politics (2021) 17 (1): 135–144.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the radioactive fallout from a nuclear conflict that has already wiped out all other life on the planet. At the edge of the world, the remains of humanity are on the beach. They have been laid off, made redundant, yet they carry on, largely because they do not know what else to do. Swimming, sailing, drinks...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 339–352.
Published: 01 November 2005
... on the scale of this self-styled “global civilisation”. If interactivity is to information what radioactivity is to energy, we are here faced with the extreme limit of political intelligence, since political RE-PRESENTATION disappears in the instantaneity of communication, promoting pure and simple...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 59–78.
Published: 01 March 2011
.... As the project moved beyond purely optical concerns, I grew interested in the culturally and socially significant implications of mediation. One striking aspect of the US government's nuclear experiment was the fact that these monumentally lethal radioactive events had to be mediated in order to be enacted...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 231–248.
Published: 01 July 2007
... Participation and the Nimby Syndrome: Public Response to Radioactive Waste Disposal .” The Western Political Quarterly 44 ( 2 ): 299 – 328 . Larner W. Craig D. 2005 . “ After Neoliberalism? Community Activism and Local Partnerships in Aotearoa New Zealand .” Antipode : 402 – 24...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 293–309.
Published: 01 November 2016
... remain a lively force. The package material of integrated circuits might contain uranium and thorium impurities of only one part per billion, but the radioactive decay of these elements can nonetheless cause “soft errors” in semiconductor technologies ( Kumar, Agarwal, and Jung 2013 ; Baumann 2005...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 95–122.
Published: 01 March 2007
...) motorcycle (1885) the gasoline-powered automobile (1885) pneumatic tyre (1888) radio waves (1888) photographic film (1889) the punch-card computer (1889) X-rays (1895) A/C current (1895) wireless telegraphy (1895) radioactivity (1896) air conditioning (1902) the airplane (1903) the electron (1904...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., and Architecture . Cambridge : Polity . Hughes Langston . (1961) 1997 . “ Radioactive Red Caps .” In The Best of Simple , 210 – 13 . New York : Hill and Wang . Ing Dean . 1983 . Pulling Through . New York : Ace Books . Jameson Fredric . 2005 . Archaeologies of the Future...
