{"product_id":"signs-of-danger-waste-trauma-and-nuclear-threat-paperback","title":"Signs of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat Volume 26 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter C. Van Wyck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter C. van Wyck is associate professor of communication at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. He is the author of \u003ci\u003ePrimitives in the Wilderness: Deep Ecology and the Missing Human Subject.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 10.08 x 7.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45844711538885,"sku":"9780816637638","price":54.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/Ohznr9JCXt9780816637638.webp?v=1781331971","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/signs-of-danger-waste-trauma-and-nuclear-threat-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}