{"product_id":"empire-of-deterrence-nuclear-weapons-and-the-containment-of-politics-9781917516037","title":"Empire of Deterrence: Nuclear Weapons and the Containment of Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Gardiner\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Repeater\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Repeater\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Military - Nuclear Warfare\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to 'automate' much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Deterrence\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how nuclear strategy, once framed as a tool for security, has become an invisible but ever-present law -- shaping the very foundations of political authority, economic order, and cultural imagination in the Anglosphere. Rather than merely deterring conflict, nuclear logic now smothers dissent, flattens alternatives, and enforces a regime of stasis masquerading as stability. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a vast range of Cold War-era thought and culture -- from the strategic philosophy of Paul Virilio to the haunting dramas of Stephen Poliakoff, the aesthetics of Folk Horror, and the metaphysical critiques of the Kyoto School -- this book traces how deterrence became hardwired into governance, ideology, and the feedback loops of Western managerial culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once theoretical and urgent, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Deterrence\u003c\/i\u003e asks: How did nuclear logic come to rule us? Can we break its psychic grip? And is it still possible to think and act beyond the empire it sustains?","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46288697393303,"sku":"9781917516037","price":1153.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781917516037.webp?v=1768663880","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/empire-of-deterrence-nuclear-weapons-and-the-containment-of-politics-9781917516037","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}