Art and Nuclear Power

Anna Volkmar

doi:10.5771/9781666900231

Summary

Humanity is struggling with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies like nuclear reactors. Politicians, scientists, and business leaders all too often revert to a tried and tested set of solutions that fails to grasp the wicked nature of the problem. Eschewing the problem-solving approach that dominates the nuclear energy debate, Anna Volkmar suggests that the only intelligent way to account for the inherent complexity of nuclear technology is not by trying to resolve it but to muddle through it. Through in-depth analyses of contemporary visual art, Volkmar demonstrates how art can suggest ways to muddle through these issues intelligently and ethically. This book is recommended for students and scholars of art history, anthropology, social science, ecocriticism, and philosophy.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0022-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0023-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 206
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. List of Figures No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1.1 We’ve Made a World We Cannot Control . . . No access
2. 1.2 . . . Thus, Muddling Through Is the Best We Can Do No access
3. 1.3 Approach No access
4. 1.4 How This Book Is Organized No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1.1 Locating the Irony in Fluffy Clouds No access
2. 1.2 Of Viewers and Victims No access
3. 1.3 New Topographics and Irony No access
4. 1.4 Of Sheep and Cooling Towers No access
5. 1.5 Ironic Self-Encounters No access
6. 1.6 Returning to the World No access
7. Notes No access
1. 2.1 Rendering Nuclear Disaster Invisible No access
2. 2.2 The Self-Aware Image No access
3. 2.3 Blurry Photographs No access
4. 2.4 A Social Practice No access
5. 2.5 Samosely Revisited No access
6. 2.6 The Art of Living in Ruins No access
7. Notes No access
1. 3.1 A Technicist Disaster No access
2. 3.2 The Radiant No access
3. 3.3 Re-Volt No access
4. 3.4 Finger Pointing Worker No access
5. 3.5 Bending the Rules No access
6. 3.6 Exposure No access
7. Notes No access
1. 4.1 Nuclear Waste as a Communication Problem No access
2. 4.2 Culture Solves What Technology Cannot? No access
3. 4.3 Art and RK&M No access
4. 4.4 Viral Fictions No access
5. 4.5 A Marker for Halde Stolzenberg No access
6. 4.6 How to Really Care for Nuclear Waste? No access
7. 4.7 Postscript: A Note on Mythology No access
8. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 185 - 188
Bibliography No access Pages 189 - 200
Index No access Pages 201 - 204
About the Author No access Pages 205 - 206