@article{ART002158161},
author={David R. COLE and Rick DOLPHIJN and Joff P. N. BRADLEY},
title={Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave},
journal={탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities},
issn={2092-6081},
year={2016},
volume={9},
number={3},
pages={211-233},
doi={10.22901/trans.2016.9.3.211}
TY - JOUR
AU - David R. COLE
AU - Rick DOLPHIJN
AU - Joff P. N. BRADLEY
TI - Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave
JO - 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities
PY - 2016
VL - 9
IS - 3
PB - Ewha Institute for the Humanities: EIH
SP - 211
EP - 233
SN - 2092-6081
AB - The enduring effects of the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan are explored in this paper through the notions of “geo-trauma” in the authors’ work and geophilosophy in Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy. At the fulcrum of the 2011 global disaster was the nuclear meltdown and the emittance of radioactive material such as Caesium-137 and Strontium-90. This event mattered and matters, dispersing and deterritorializing organic, non-organic, and anorganic life in all of its articulations. In the wake of the singularity of Fukushima and the Anthropocene epoch more generally, it is timely to ruminate upon in what way this event as a futural wave makes “us” as the present generation both responsible for and part of the ongoing Fukushima meltdown. The questions that Fukushima provokes are not about the specific clean-up operation and environmental impacts around the plant, but more about how we can understand Fukushima as an event in nuclear history, or a singularity of “geo-trauma.” The folly of Fukushima and its aftermath, points to something fundamental about the Anthropocene, in the sense that the interconnected patterning that one may derive from the site of the disaster, gives new life to understanding the darker/non-human sides of ecology, the media, the unconscious, contamination, and space. The posthumanism of Deleuze and Guattari combined with the extinctional impetus of the Anthropocene will drive this analysis forward in terms of uncovering new forms of understanding about the Earth, World, territory, land, and Nature.
KW - the Anthropocene;Fukushima;futural-wave;geo-trauma;geothinking;nuclear contamination
DO - 10.22901/trans.2016.9.3.211
ER -
David R. COLE, Rick DOLPHIJN and Joff P. N. BRADLEY. (2016). Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 9(3), 211-233.
David R. COLE, Rick DOLPHIJN and Joff P. N. BRADLEY. 2016, "Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave", 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, vol.9, no.3 pp.211-233. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2016.9.3.211
David R. COLE, Rick DOLPHIJN, Joff P. N. BRADLEY "Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 9.3 pp.211-233 (2016) : 211.
David R. COLE, Rick DOLPHIJN, Joff P. N. BRADLEY. Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave. 2016; 9(3), 211-233. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2016.9.3.211
David R. COLE, Rick DOLPHIJN and Joff P. N. BRADLEY. "Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 9, no.3 (2016) : 211-233.doi: 10.22901/trans.2016.9.3.211
David R. COLE; Rick DOLPHIJN; Joff P. N. BRADLEY. Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities, 9(3), 211-233. doi: 10.22901/trans.2016.9.3.211
David R. COLE; Rick DOLPHIJN; Joff P. N. BRADLEY. Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave. 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities. 2016; 9(3) 211-233. doi: 10.22901/trans.2016.9.3.211
David R. COLE, Rick DOLPHIJN, Joff P. N. BRADLEY. Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave. 2016; 9(3), 211-233. Available from: doi:10.22901/trans.2016.9.3.211
David R. COLE, Rick DOLPHIJN and Joff P. N. BRADLEY. "Fukushima: The Geo-trauma of a Futural Wave" 탈경계인문학Trans-Humanities 9, no.3 (2016) : 211-233.doi: 10.22901/trans.2016.9.3.211