... does this constitutive contradiction do? In this article, I explore the slippery subjectivities of nuclear waste and nature at Washington State's Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Beginning with the Hanford Reach National Monument, I examine how this space is framed as both pristine habitat and waste...

... Skrimshire 2018 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). deep time nuclear waste confession Saint Augustine Derrida “For the last time, (Man) assigns himself the main role, even if it’s to accuse himself of having...

... and reprocessing plant at Sellafield in 1947. By following the “flows” of pleasure, emotion, energy, and waste through Seascale, we explore the legacies of nuclear contamination for coastal communities, within a broader regime of the commodification of nature. This essay emerges from a transdisciplinary research...

...Sasha Litvintseva Abstract Asbestos is a fibrous mineral. Airborne asbestos—similar to nuclear radiation and chemical atmospheric pollutants—is invisible to the naked eye, and living and breathing alongside it has deferred toxic effects on human bodies. The toxicity of asbestos operates...

... power James Lovelock, for instance, shows very clearly the questionable political traction that the portrayal of thriving Chornobyl wildlife can have when he suggests that a solution to the problem of nuclear waste could be to dispose of it in highly threatened ecosystems—because the presence...

... with the Anthropocene. The impact of certain humans on the planet, we are told—our transformation of the soil, the mass extinctions we have precipitated, our nuclear waste burial—will be forever traceable in the geological record. The Dunwich skeletons come to haunt us from a different era, and yet I can’t help...

... with clearance operators and development organizations that select these massively contaminated villages for intervention. Researching a similar mix of ecological and geopolitical intervention, Masco analyzed how military waste produced “mutant ecologies” in post–Cold War New Mexico. 2 Nuclear radiation has...

...Mankei Tam Abstract This article explores soil and the multiple pathways it has provided for the coconstitution of forms of life that might be possible following the Fukushima nuclear fallout. In Iitate, a former evacuation zone where radiation still lingers, farmers and concerned citizens deploy...

... to the residue of nuclear arms testing, reminding us of all the figurative and literal “waste” dumped into the world's oceans in the name of making our “progressive models of capitalist time” function. Guest editor Patricia Yaeger took her critique of our oceanic optimism even further. Citing a laundry list...

... the rest of the pasture. Observations about sacrifice zones were often paired with technological or managerial solutions to concentrate the damage in small areas or, as in the case of animal waste, send it elsewhere. In 1970, for instance, a scholar in a British farm journal defined a “sacrifice area...

... is on the life-support system, the technological system that furnished human space cabin passengers with all their vital needs: breathable oxygen, nutrient stores, and waste removal. I zero in on the history of one type of technology in particular, the bioregenerative life-support system. This system proposed...

... the dead,” DeLoughrey argues that the ocean preserves history in the form of the nuclear-petrocultural waste that travels the food chain and comes to literally constitute us. The ghosts of the modern project consist of real matter, so that the subject, by virtue of its wet relationality, incorporates...

... and with different implications. Whereas satire offers an effective vehicle for lamenting the proliferation of waste, the critical mood that defines the genre also restricts its capacity for generating meanings and sensibilities outside conventional environmental discourse. By contrast, parody and irony appear more...

... and Spain and as far north as Germany, covering fields and roofs with a thin but pervasive layer of nuclear dust. 1 Originating in the Sahara Desert, the storm carried its sixty-year-old intercontinental payload across the Mediterranean from nuclear weapons tests conducted in the French-colonized...

... in hominization. 2 He argues that philosophy has to come to terms with the interventions that he describes as “world-objects,” for example, the potential devastation of the world through nuclear weapons, the ability to access and communicate globally through the internet, and the present environmental...

... technological developments that are greener and more efficient in material throughput, energy requirements, and waste output is pressing. But changing economic structures and consumer behaviors regarding the production and consumption of materials, food, and energy is not at all necessary: in fact...

... is leading us to ecocide and species suicide because it is based on ignorance, fear, delusion, and greed.” 25 Systems leading to species suicide, in her analysis, include nuclear power and plutonium waste, nuclear war, petroleum-based agriculture, and pesticides. Spretnak then integrates a critique...

..., production and disposal of toxic/hazardous wastes and poisons and nuclear testing that threaten the fundamental right to clean air, land, water, and food.” 43 Decades earlier than Robinson’s publications, many people had already recognized themselves as being hit by the damage he alludes to. Nuclear...

.... Stefan Skrimshire’s piece brings these concerns together. In a reading of the nuclear semiotics of deep-earth radioactive waste storage programs, such as Finland’s five-hundred-meter-deep ONKALO facility, and of Michael Madsen’s 2010 documentary Into Eternity , Skrimshire examines how we confess...

... the term sacrifice zones from Valerie Kuletz, who, in The Tainted Desert (1998), coined the phrase “geographies of sacrifice” to describe the disproportionate effects of Cold War–era nuclear testing and hazardous-waste disposal on indigenous communities in the southwestern United States. For government...