Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android

Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android explores the threat posed by the nuclear cycle, including mining, research, health, power generation, and weaponry. It also examines the exploitation of Australian Aboriginal people and their lands, the use of atomic weapons, and the language of denial in nuclear mining, energy, and military usages. The book seeks to assemble new resources of resistance through creative and critical mediums, including poetry and poetics.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android delves into the profound threat posed and perpetuated by the nuclear cycle, encompassing activities such as mining, research, health, power generation, and weaponry. At the heart of this multifaceted investigation into the pervasive infiltration of our lives and the dominant control exerted by the industrial-military complex, lies a series of critical critiques. These critiques encompass the creation, storage, and utilization of atomic weapons, the exploitation of Australian Aboriginal people and their lands through British atomic testing in the 1950s, and an exposé of the language of denial prevalent in the world of nuclear mining, energy, and military applications. Additionally, nuclear theory is explored parenthetically in its capacity as an extended metaphor and a subject of inquiry for poetry and poetics. A central focus of this book lies in examining the use of the language of the atomic in cultural spaces and the arts. This includes addressing indigenous land-rights claims in the face of uranium mining, delving into the semantics of waste and the cynical exploitation of global warming by nuclear power companies to serve their own corrosive agendas. The triumphalism of scientific and cultural discourse surrounding nuclear energy and the potential threats posed by nuclear fission are also scrutinized. By association, these issues raise questions about the prevailing narratives and the need for alternative perspectives. The nuclear cycle casts a shadow of doubt over the future of human beings, prompting this book to seek to assemble new resources of resistance through creative and critical mediums, including poetry and poetics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367645236