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Nuclear Gaia: Media Archives of Planetary Harm: BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research

Autor Agnieszka Jelewska, Michal Krawczak
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 noi 2025
Traces the hidden currents of nuclear history that continue to shape politics and planetary survival using media archives and digital forensics.

Nuclear Gaia: Media Archives of Planetary Harm challenges us to see the planet itself as shaped by nuclear processes—an evolving entity where past accidents, detonations, and military strategies continue to radiate through environmental and social landscapes. Agnieszka Jelewska and Michal Krawczak explore how media archives and open-source investigations transform nuclear memory and create new forms of justice beyond the domain of scientists and politicians.

Bringing together nuclear studies, media theory, and environmental humanities, this book reveals how independent researchers and local communities are reclaiming the narratives of nuclear harm. With fresh case studies and bold conceptual frameworks, Nuclear Gaia sets the stage for a new era of postnuclear studies, where AI, quantum mechanics, and nuclear technology intersect in ways we are only beginning to comprehend.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781835951538
ISBN-10: 1835951538
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Intellect Ltd
Colecția Intellect Ltd
Seria BCMCR New Directions in Media and Cultural Research


Notă biografică

Agnieszka Jelewska is professor in the Anthropology and Cultural Studies Department and cofounder of the Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. Michal Krawczak is associate professor in the Anthropology and Cultural Studies Department and cofounder of the Humanities/Art/Technology Research Center at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.

Cuprins

List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction: Welcome to Nuclear Gaia
 
1. Post-nuclear Studies and Infrastructures of Nuclear Regimes
      Media archives and grassroots practices
      Quantum entanglements
      Digital information, energy, and matter
      Sentient media and radiation
      Quantum media theory
      Media as geological sedimentation
      Infrastructures of violence
      Hyper-aesthetics of nuclearity
2. Nuclear Gaia: Oscillating Between Spacetimemattering and the Nuclear Colonial Drive
      Splitting the atom, or the intertwining of scientific experiments, historical time and military policies
      Masculinist nuclearism
      Nuclear criticism: the end of linear archives and the bomb as a medium
      Spacetimemattering and the memory of nuclear violence
      Nuclear Gaia as technologically mediated Earth design
      Colonial traces of Nuclear Gaia
      A lustful gaze at the exosphere and the moon as the 8th continent
3. From Biosphere to IT Gaia
       The Earth in the state of total peace
       Vernadsky’s biosphere and its noo¨spheric transformation
      The Quest for Gaia, or Lovelock’s tale about the superorganism, climate change and nuclear sadness
      Earth Science System and the self-reflective global subject
      The Earth as we knew it no longer exists
4. Nuclear Communication and Grassroots Archives of Catastrophes
      The advent of nuclear-proof communication
      Simulation as a tool of the real: between war games and catastrophes
      The postnuclear seismic order
      The Fukushima Daiichi disaster and proof of communication collapse
      Live archiving of nuclear regimes
      Top-down archive as a theater of simulating nuclear future
      An inaccessible archive
      Records from the zone of alienation
      Against nucleocratism
      Beyond the linear paradigm
5. Nuclear Violence and Planetary Harm: Testing the Endurance of Humans and the Environment
      Media labs of atomic tests
      New media of the nuclear renaissance
      Ahead of the Time: three visions of Russian nuclearism
      Atomic steppe: the Semipalatinsk Test Site
      Seismic studies of nuclear power
       Fallout archives: the Nevada Test Site
      The Downwinders’ archive
      Toxic archipelago archives: the French Polynesia Test Site
      Atoll archives: the Bikini Test Site
      Nuclear savages
      Decolonizing nuclear regimes
6. Anthropocene: The First Geological Epoch of Nuclear Gaia
      Indices of the Anthropocene
      Metadata of the Anthropocene
      Nuclear Anthropocene: toxic minerals and landscapes
      Nuclear harm: conditions for half-life
      A Great Extractivism
      Deep time future of radioactive waste and cross-generational justice
 
No Apocalypse, Not Now …
References
Index