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The multi-media melting pot : marketing 'When the wind blows'
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ISBN: 0906890926 Year: 1986 Publisher: London Comedia publishing group

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Infrastructures of apocalypse : American literature and the nuclear complex
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ISBN: 9781517908744 9781517908737 1517908744 1517908736 Year: 2020 Publisher: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press,

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Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project. Although it requires a massive infrastructure that touches society on myriad levels, nuclear technology has typically been discussed in a limited, top-down fashion that clusters around powerful men. In Infrastructures of Apocalypse, Jessica Hurley turns this conventional wisdom on its head, offering a new approach that focuses on neglected authors and Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American perspectives.Exchanging the usual white, male "nuclear canon" for authors that include James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ruth Ozeki, Infrastructures of Apocalypse delivers a fresh literary history of post-1945 America that focuses on apocalypse from below. Here Hurley critiques the racialized urban spaces of civil defense and reads nuclear waste as a colonial weapon. Uniting these diverse lines of inquiry is Hurley's belief that apocalyptic thinking is not the opposite of engagement but rather a productive way of imagining radically new forms of engagement.Infrastructures of Apocalypse offers futurelessness as a place from which we can construct a livable world. It fills a blind spot in scholarship on American literature of the nuclear age, while also offering provocative, surprising new readings of such well-known works as Atlas Shrugged, Infinite Jest, and Angels in America. Infrastructures of Apocalypse is a revelation for readers interested in nuclear issues, decolonial literature, speculative fiction, and American studies.


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Race, ethnicity and nuclear war : representations of nuclear weapons and post-apocalyptic worlds
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ISBN: 184631979X 1846317088 1789624193 Year: 2011 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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Ranging across novels and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds explores how writers, thinkers, and filmmakers have answered the following question: are nuclear weapons "white"? Many texts respond in the affirmative, and arraign nuclear weapons for defending a racial order that privileges whiteness. They are seen as a reminder that the power enjoyed by the white western world imperils the whole of the Earth. Furthermore, the struggle to survive during and after a speculated nuclear attack is often cast as a contest between races and ethnic groups. Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War listens to voices from around the Anglophone world and the debates followed do not only take place on the soil of the nuclear powers. Filmmakers and writers from the Caribbean, Australia, and India take up positions shaped by their specific place in the decolonizing world and their particular experience of nuclear weapons.The texts considered in Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War encompass the many guises of representations of nuclear weapons: the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic weapons, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear tests taking place around the world, and the anxiety surrounding the superpowers' devastating arsenals. Of particular interest to SF scholars are the extensive analyses of films, novels, and short stories depicting nuclear war and its aftermath. New thoughts are offered on the major texts that SF scholars often return to, such as Philip Wylie's Tomorrow! and Pat Frank's Alas Babylon, and a host of little known and under-researched texts are scrutinized too.An Open Access edition of this work is available on the OAPEN Library.


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Abschreckungskunst : zur Ehrenrettung der apokalyptischen Phantasie
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ISBN: 9783770552887 3770552881 3846752886 9783846752883 Year: 2012 Publisher: München : W. Fink,

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Warum hat der Dritte Weltkrieg nicht stattgefunden? Das ist die Leitfrage des vorliegenden Buches. Es beschreibt die Rolle der apokalyptischen Phantasie, die sich und uns das Schlimmste ausmalt, um es zu verhüten. Dabei erleben wir die Einbildungskraft zunächst auf Aufholjagd. Der Erste Weltkrieg war als totaler Krieg ein nie dagewesenes Ereignis, das erst in den Raum des Vor- und Darstellbaren ineintransportiert werden mußte. Das leistete insbesondere die deutsche und englische Kriegsdichtung, die gleichsam als Augenzeugenbericht direkt auf dem Kriegsschauplatz entstand, und die spätere Aufarbeitung im Roman (Im Westen nichts Neues) und Kino (Westfront). Zur Verhinderung des Zweiten Weltkriegs reichten die so aufgebauten ästhetischen Widerstandspotentiale allerdings nicht aus. Erst der sich in Reaktion auf die neuerliche Erfahrung entgrenzter Gewalt ausbildende Darstellungsmodus des schwarzen Humors (Catch-22, Dr. Strangelove) war effektiver. Die entsprechend trostlose, doch fieberhafte und multimediale Ausmalung des atomaren Weltuntergangs, die Welle (post)apokalyptischer Phantasien in den Romanen, Filmen, Theaterstücken, Songs insbesondere der 1970er und 1980er Jahre, so eine zentrale These der Untersuchung, hat ihn verhindert. Einen Grund zum Feiern gibt es trotzdem nicht. Die Arsenale sind weiterhin gefüllt. Auch die Militärstrategen sind phantasiebegabt und manövrieren ohne Unterlaß. Der Kampf der Kriegsspiele und Simulationen geht weiter.

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