...David Bates ON REVOLUTIONS IN THE NUCLEAR AGE: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND THE POSTWAR GLOBAL IMAGINATION David Bates Contemporaries are in a peculiarly difficult position to assess the nature of revolutions through which...

...Andrew Moisey Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Considering the Desire to Mark Our Buried Nuclear Waste Into Eternity and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant andrew moisey I am now in this place where you should never come. We call it Onkalo. Onkalo means “hiding place.” In my...

..., the disaster erases its own historicity; it is the event which, should it come to pass, will wipe away all historicization. For Blanchot, the ultimate disaster might appear to be the total destruction resulting from war betWeen nuclear superpowers, one...

...: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom, would seem to fall squarely under the auspices of the second half of her professorship. Thermonuclear Monarchy is an impassioned plea for complete nuclear disarmament, extending to the stockpiles of ev- ery nation. Such disarmament must be led by the United...

... with titles like An Atlas of Cloud Chamber Pictures or An Atlas of Nuclear Emulsion Pictures. I didn’t know what these things were; that is, I couldn’t fi gure out in what sense these compendia were atlases. But one of them made reference to medical literature, so I went to the library in the medical...

... projects for long-term nuclear waste markers. Embedded in this second question is a third, more abstract one: Could affect theory really, as Silverman hypothesizes it eventually will, ground a new ontology of the self and a new ethics. To try to answer either part of this question now...

... Copyright © 2012 Qui Parle 2012 Erratum In Andrew Moisey’s article “Considering the Desire to Mark Our Bur- ied Nuclear Waste: Into Eternity and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant,” published in Qui Parle 20.2, the fi rst full paragraph on p. 120, which continues onto p. 121...

... of Chernobyl, Beck’s words bear repeating in light of recent catastrophes such as the bp–Deepwater Horizon oil hemorrhage in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear melt- downs in 2011, widely publicized accidents whose unfi nished harm overlaps with, and cannot...

... about. To draw out a particularly maddening instance of this sort of shortsightedness, Dawson considers Turkey Point, a nuclear power plant situated on a barrier island just south of Miami. Citing the 2011 Fukushima meltdown, Dawson considers likely scenarios for the site, on which there are currently...

... in historical and contemporary Chinese and Japanese relationships to the natural world—a trend particularly strong in Japan studies as scholars in the field grapple with the devastation wrought by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster as well as accelerating ecological degradation...

...- McGlotten and VanGundy: Zombie Porn 1.0 113 ual sex and nuclear family creation. Rather, zombie, like queer, reproduction occurs through contact: including forms of bodily interpenetration—fucking and consuming in Otto— but also the cultural contact that facilitates the world- building...

... and invest in the renewal of the “nuclear deterrent” while at the same time withdrawing funding from higher education. If any justifi ca- tion is given at all, this is often done in a populist vein in which the alleged benefi ts of higher education are depicted as only having to do...

... or, if you prefer something more ecological, from nuclear waste to birds’ nests. To this quite Aristotelian view OOO extends Husserl’s and Heidegger’s arguments that things have an irreducible dark side: no matter how many times we turn over a coin, we never see the other side as the other side...

... nuclear family to watch To Catch a Predator. Like many of McGlotten’s chapters, though, this one ends a few beats to soon, leaving us to wonder, along with the author, exactly how the public- ness of these sexual encounters might go hand in hand with their virtualness...

...- Bacchetta: Decolonial Praxis 151 ment, against nuclear power, etc. I wrote music and played in a women’s music group called Lunaria. That was from 1977 to 1979. I’m still close to the women with whom I lived in the squat. For a long time I found it diffi cult to speak about that period, but I’ve...

...- ing, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.”1 For a few weeks Hawking enjoyed a surge of attention from news media, and in the years since then he has troubled the popular press two or three more times with simi- lar climacterics over our...

..., nuclear sameness—whether it be vegetal, logical, or on- tological. Following this, it will be the atoms that split us. Notes 1. From Guillaume Apollinaire, Selected Poems, trans. and ed. Oliver Bernard (1913; London: Anvil Press, 2004), 36. 2. Claude Lévi-Strauss, “A Small Mythico...

... hyperobjects—“global warming, nuclear radiation, tectonic plates, biosphere, evolution”4— “have brought about the end of the world” (ho, 6). They have pushed us over the precipice and into the abyss. For Heidegger, as for Morton, the age of the world picture is toppled...

.... “The University of California” is a Cohen & Raiford: Multiculturalism in an Age of Austerity 203 university system, a multibillion- dollar bureaucratic administration, a massive degree-granting institution with ten campuses, two nuclear weapons design labs, hundreds...

... “alternative modes of par- enting” to the nuclear family for most of recorded history. How we should choose the social relations in which children are raised is a very diff erent kind of question than how a child is made, and makes itself in utero. For that, you need ova and sperm, and for the time...