NUCLEAR CULTURE COLLECTION

Books about or referencing all things nuclear: nuclear futures, nuclear waste, toxic environments—and Godzilla.

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Browse our reading list comprising all things nuclear: nuclear futures, nuclear waste, toxic environments, risk, outcomes, hyperobjects—and Godzilla.

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This Contested Land The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments McKenzie Long 2024 Spring: One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii—now available in paperback
The Switch An Off and On History of Digital Humans Jason Puskar 2023 Fall: From the telegraph to the touchscreen, how the development of binary switching transformed everyday life and changed the shape of human agency
Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again Shigeru Kayama 2023 Fall: The first English translations of the original novellas about the iconic kaijū Godzilla
Endlings Fables for the Anthropocene Lydia Pyne 2023 Spring: Amid the historical decimation of species around the globe, a new way into the language of loss
Tsuchi Earthy Materials in Contemporary Japanese Art Bert Winther-Tamaki 2022 Spring: An examination of Japanese contemporary art through the lens of ecocriticism and environmental history
Solarities Seeking Energy Justice After Oil Collective Ayesha Vemuri and Darin Barney, Editors 2022 Fall: A collective engages and mirrors the critical need for energy justice and transformation
Calamity Theory Three Critiques of Existential Risk Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods 2021 Fall: What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?
Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring: From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War
Radioactive Ghosts Gabriele Schwab 2020 Fall: A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate
Infrastructures of Apocalypse American Literature and the Nuclear Complex Jessica Hurley 2020 Fall: A new approach to the vast nuclear infrastructure and the apocalypses it produces, focusing on Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American literatures
An Ecotopian Lexicon Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors 2019 Fall: Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation
Theory for the World to Come Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer 2019 Spring: Can social theories forge new paths into an uncertain future?
Cyberwar and Revolution Digital Subterfuge in Global Capitalism Nick Dyer-Witheford and Svitlana Matviyenko 2019 Spring: Uncovering the class conflicts, geopolitical dynamics, and aggressive capitalism propelling the militarization of the internet
Anthropocene Poetics Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction David Farrier 2019 Spring: How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time
After Extinction Richard Grusin, Editor 2018 Spring: A multidisciplinary exploration of extinction and what comes next
The End of Man A Feminist Counterapocalypse Joanna Zylinska 2018 Spring: Debugging the Anthropocene’s insistence on apocalyptic tropes
Veer Ecology A Companion for Environmental Thinking Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Editors 2017 Fall: An innovative toolkit designed to prompt new awareness of the risk and potential of living on—and with—an alarmingly dynamic planet
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt, Editors 2017 Spring: Can humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together?
Against Purity Living Ethically in Compromised Times Alexis Shotwell 2016 Fall: Why contamination and compromise might be a starting point for doing something, instead of a reason to give up
Exposed Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Stacy Alaimo 2016 Fall: A bold call to approach environmentalism from the inside out
Mechademia 10 World Renewal Frenchy Lunning, Editor 2015 Fall: The ongoing effects of 3/11 in Japan through anime and manga
Hope at Sea Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Teresa Shewry 2015 Fall: Hope is a lifeline running through the work of literary writers in and surrounding the Pacific Ocean
Wastelanding Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country Traci Brynne Voyles 2015 Spring: What is “wasteland,” and who gets to decide?
Stone An Ecology of the Inhuman Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 2015 Spring: A beautifully written account of stone’s intimacy to what it means to be human
Nuclear Desire Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order Shampa Biswas 2014 Fall: Argues that the nonproliferation regime helps sustain a global nuclear order that generates the desire for nuclear weapons
Hyperobjects Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton 2013 Fall: The world as we know it has already come to an end
Hot Spotter’s Report Military Fables of Toxic Waste Shiloh R. Krupar 2013 Spring: How biopolitical militarism in the U.S. obscures the domestic remains of war
Island of the Doomed Stig Dagerman 2012 Spring: A haunting masterpiece of Scandinavian literature—now published for the first time in the United States
Gameplay Mode War, Simulation, and Technoculture Patrick Crogan 2011 Fall: Understanding the military logics that created and continue to inform computer games
Fallout Shelter Designing for Civil Defense in the Cold War David Monteyne 2011 Spring: Tracing the partnership between architects and American civil defense officials during the Cold War
Signs of Danger Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat Peter C. van Wyck 2004 Fall: Questions the literal burying of the nuclear threat and how it relates to expectations for our future
People of the Bomb Portraits of America’s Nuclear Complex Hugh Gusterson 2004 Spring: How the American military-industrial complex has invaded our consciousness to create consent for its programs