Carpenter, Ele. 2016. The Smoke of Nuclear Modernity Drifts through the Anthropocene. In: Helen Grove-White, ed. Power in the Land. Wales: X-10, pp. 17-29. ISBN 978-1-78280-732-2 [Book Section]

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Working with the nuclear economy and nuclear aesthetics is a complex ethical process, one that twists and turns through spirals of technical jargon, nuclear utopianism and deep psychic fear. In this culture of extremes, artists engaging with contemporary nuclear culture walk a political tightrope interrogating how nuclear aesthetics are reproduced whilst avoiding the simplifying tropes of industry and activism. In parallel to artistic practices, this essay explores some of the constructions of nuclear modernity, and the means of escape and betrayal, which contribute to rethinking nuclear aesthetics in the early twentieth century.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Full text is used with special permission from the publisher.
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Dates:	Date Event 10 January 2016 Published
Item ID:	16911
Date Deposited:	23 Feb 2016 10:08
Last Modified:	29 Apr 2020 16:14
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/16911

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