The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making
1st Edition
Published on 18. December 2020
440 pages
978-1-4780-1266-5 (ISBN)
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Joseph Masco examines the psychosocial, material, and affective consequences of the advent of nuclear weapons, the Cold War security state, climate change on contemporary US democratic practices and public imaginaries.
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Joseph Masco is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and author of The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror, also published by Duke University Press, and The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post--Cold War New Mexico.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Prologue 1
1. Age of Fallout 17
I. Dreaming Deserts and Death Machines
2. 5:29:45 a.m. 45
3. States of Insecurity 51
4. Desert Modernism 83
5. The Billboard Campaign 113
II. Bunkers and Psyches
6. Rehearsing the End 127
7. Life Underground 137
8. Atomic Health 157
9. End of Ends 179
III. Celluloid Nightmares
10. Target Audience 199
11. The Age of (a) Man 219
12. Catastrophe's Apocalypse 237
13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback 265
IV. After Counterrevolution
14. Shaking, Trembling, Shouting 287
15. "Active Measures" 301
16. Boundless Informant 319
17. The Crisis in Crisis 339
Epilogue: An Alternate 363
"What If"
Acknowledgments 371
Notes 37
References 389
Index 415
Prologue 1
1. Age of Fallout 17
I. Dreaming Deserts and Death Machines
2. 5:29:45 a.m. 45
3. States of Insecurity 51
4. Desert Modernism 83
5. The Billboard Campaign 113
II. Bunkers and Psyches
6. Rehearsing the End 127
7. Life Underground 137
8. Atomic Health 157
9. End of Ends 179
III. Celluloid Nightmares
10. Target Audience 199
11. The Age of (a) Man 219
12. Catastrophe's Apocalypse 237
13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback 265
IV. After Counterrevolution
14. Shaking, Trembling, Shouting 287
15. "Active Measures" 301
16. Boundless Informant 319
17. The Crisis in Crisis 339
Epilogue: An Alternate 363
"What If"
Acknowledgments 371
Notes 37
References 389
Index 415
