...Hugo Reinert Abstract Triangulating narratives from a prospective mining site in northern Norway, this article works to identify (and render graspable) a particular effect of retroactive shock—tracing its resonance through experiences of chemical exposure, colonial racism, cultural erasure...

... “The Midwife and the Poet: Bioaccumulation and Retroactive Shock,” is, for example, crafted to produce an experience of retroactive shock within the reader. Reinert writes, “to grasp the poisoned mother in her full implication meant being shifted, shockingly, into a world that you already shared with her...

...: Bioaccumulation and Retroactive Shock,” follows in this northern suite with a triangulation of ethnographic stories from a mining site in northern Norway. In his essay, Reinert attempts to make tangible a particular Anthropocene affect, a shared and embodied feeling of retroactive shock from experiences...