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"Radioactive Ghosts hopefully conveys the need to see nuclearism as absolutely central to the debates about the anthropocene or capitalocene. Radioactive contamination is, after all, arguably the most destructive footprint humans have left on the planet. Within this larger framework, my focus on nuclear subjectivities also counters the current neglect of psychopolitics in political as well as ecological debates about nuclearism. Radioactive Ghosts presents steps toward a first comprehensive psychological theory of nuclear subjectivities with the hope to inspire further work in this direction."-- Preface.

"A pioneering examination of nuclear trauma, the continuing and new nuclear peril, and the subjectivities they generate"-- Provided by publisher.

Posthumanities ; 61

Preface : Of three-eyed fish and other ghostings

Introduction : Why nuclear necropolitics today?

Part 1. Nuclear subjectivities

No apocalypse, not now : Derrida and the nuclear unconscious

Nuclear colonialism

Critical nuclear race theory

The gender of nuclear subjectivities

Interlude : Children of the nuclear age, with Simon J. Ortiz

Part 2. Haunting from the future

The afterlife of nuclear catastrophes

Hiroshima's ghostly shadows

Postnuclear madness and nuclear crypts

Transspecies selves : intimacies, extimacies, animacies

Coda: Postnuclear ecologies : language, body, and affect in Beckett's Happy Days.

Nuclear warfare > Philosophy.

Nuclear accidents > Psychological aspects.

Radioactive pollution > Philosophy.

Death > Political aspects.

Psychic trauma > Social aspects.

Nuclear energy > Philosophy.

Nuclear weapons > Philosophy.

Nuclear weapons > Moral and ethical aspects.

Nuclear industry > Moral and ethical aspects.

Nuclear waste > Philosophy.

Death > Political aspects.

Nuclear energy > Philosophy.

Nuclear industry > Moral and ethical aspects.

Nuclear warfare > Philosophy.

Nuclear weapons > Moral and ethical aspects.

Psychic trauma > Social aspects.