{"product_id":"signs-of-danger-waste-trauma-and-nuclear-threat-volume-26-9780816637638","title":"Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat Volume 26","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Peter C. Van Wyck\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Environmental Conservation \u0026amp; Protection - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuestions the literal burying of the nuclear threat and how it relates to expectations for our future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA rising ocean. A falling building. A toxic river. Species extinguished. A nuclear landscape. In a world so configured, the state of contemporary ecological thought and practice is woefully--and perilously--inadequate. Focusing on the government's nuclear waste burial program in Carlsbad, New Mexico, \u003ci\u003eSigns of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e begins the urgent work of finding a new way of thinking about ecological threat in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad began receiving shipments in 1999. With a proposed closing date of 2030, this repository for nuclear waste must be secured with a sign, the purpose of which will be to keep people away for three hundred generations. In the official documents uncovered by Peter van Wyck, we encounter a government bureaucracy approaching the issue of nuclear waste as a technical problem only to find itself confronting a host of intractable philosophical issues concerning language, culture, and history. \u003ci\u003eSigns of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs these depths as it shows us how the problem raised in the desert of New Mexico is actually the problem of a culture grappling with ecological threats and with questions of the limits of meaning and representation in the deep future.\t\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe reflections at the center of this book--on memory, trauma, disaster, representation, and the virtual--are aimed at defining the uniquely modern status of environmental and nuclear threats. They offer invaluable insights into the interface of where culture ends and nature begins, and how such a juncture is closely linked with questions of risk, concepts of history, and the cultural experience of time.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2005 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize of the Canadian Communication Association","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46895827353751,"sku":"9780816637638","price":2994.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780816637638.webp?v=1770355819","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/signs-of-danger-waste-trauma-and-nuclear-threat-volume-26-9780816637638","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}