Alluvium Editorial 5.4: Nuclear Narratives

Written from within the last “hot” period of the Cold War’s near half century span, Martin Amis’s 1987 essay “Thinkability” articulates how nuclear weapons embedded themselves within our personal and cultural imagination: "Everyone is interested in nuclear weapons, even those people who affirm and actually believe that they never give the question a moment’s thought. We are all interested parties…

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Railways and Fiction

Christopher Daley   Railways are news. On the one hand, they are the source of consternation as above inflation fare rises couple with the perceived drudgery…

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On Nuclear Criticism

In 1984, the journal Diacritics set out to define what it labelled as the developing academic terrain of ‘nuclear criticism’. The opening section of the journal entitled…

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