Radiating exposures
- The brief explorations of radiation exposures presented within this essay draw primarily from nuclear art and culture and contribute to the field of nuclear aesthetics, which has long been fixated on the problem of visibility and the representation of nuclear residues. The examples draw primarily from photographic technologies and other aesthetic registers that capture visual residues of radiation. The challenges of nuclear aesthetics are also political and social. This constellation of objects and inquiries is meant to explore the fraught political, environmental, and social relations between radiation, visibility, toxicity, through the concept of exposure. They offer feminist glimpses into other ways of thinking exposure, as it develops in relation to (often imperceptible) toxicity that is not inscribed into a logic that partitions the passive victim of suffering from some pure or unaffected subject. They are examples that are both forms of exposure specific to the nuclear while also, perhaps, helping to expose more nuanced and complex ways of understanding forms of exposure that extend beyond nuclearity.
Author: | Alison Sperling |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-566834 |
URL: | https://www.ici-berlin.org/oa/ci-17/sperling_radiating-exposures.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-17_03 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-009-1 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-010-7 |
ISSN: | 2627-731X |
Parent Title (English): | Weathering : Ecologies of Exposure / Herausgeber: Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Arnd Wedemeyer ; Cultural Inquiry ; 17 |
Publisher: | ICI Berlin Press |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/10/29 |
Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/11/23 |
Tag: | Exposure; Feminism; Nuclear Aesthetics; Nuclear Art; Nuclear Culture; Radiation; Radioactive; Toxicity |
GND Keyword: | Strahlung; Radioaktivität; Kunst; Kultur; Ästhetik |
Page Number: | 22 |
First Page: | 41 |
Last Page: | 62 |
Note: | Except for images or otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 473425300 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen |