Description Investigative journalism at its best, Full Body Burden tells a story of people and community in Rocky Flats near Denver, Colorado, where a secret nuclear power plant was a major site of employment in […]
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Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War
Description This anthology reveals the still-unfolding legacies of the nuclear age. Focusing on on a range of locations including Marshall Islands, Hanford, US Southwest, Alaska, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Hiroshima, fifteen contributing anthropologists shed light on […]
Hiroshima: Three Witnesses
Description Hiroshima: Three Witnesses is a translation of “atomic bomb literature,” created by three Japanese authors Ota Yōko, Hara Tamiki, and Toge Sankichi, all of whom survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945. […]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Botany: The Salutary Science
Description Cook’s magisterial study explores Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s abiding interest in botany and botanical science and the significance of his botanical writings in the context of the history of plant science. She gives a wide-ranging yet […]
Nature’s Queer Performativity
Description Through a range of vivid examples drawn from scientific research (from social amoebas to lightening), Barad lays out how nature itself is queer, how it models queer communication through a performative rather than representative […]
Catching Nature in the Act: Réaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century
Description Terrall’s investigation of the eighteenth-century French scientist Réaumur and his circle represents both a fascinating account of the techniques and practices of eighteenth-century naturalists and a stimulating analysis of the production of scientific knowledge […]
Objectivity
Description Daston and Galison write the history of the emergence of scientific objectivity, beginning in the eighteenth century and proceeding into the present day. This magisterial study reveals practices of scientific image-making as constitutive of […]
Nature’s Queer Performativity
Description Through a range of vivid examples drawn from scientific research (from social amoebas to lightening), Barad lays out how nature itself is queer, how it models queer communication through a performative rather than represnetative […]
An Experiment with an Air Pump
Description Inspired by Joseph Wright’s 1768 painting, Stephenson’s play juxtaposes scientific exploration in 1799 with scientific exploration in 1999. The play raises questions about scientific ethics with regard to dissection of human bodies and to […]
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Description Captures the complicated attitude towards science during the Enlightenment. A man is suffocating a bird in an air pump, while (most of) his audience looks on in wonder and fear. Shows that scientific demonstrations […]