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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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Backwards and Forwards with the Atomic Priesthood

Dennis Duncan July 1, 2012 2 Comments A Glasgow Bible atomic priesthood Bible biblical scholarship Communication Measures Jamie Stuart Japanese Bible Society Jizas - di Buk We Luuk Rait bout Im King King James Version Knut SelmerAlfred landscape of thorns language Luke's gospel in Jamaican patois Manga Bible New European Version Nordic nuclear safety body Nuclear semiotics nuclear waste Rob Lacey slang Bibles spike field Street Bible Thomas Sebeock translation

It’s always nice to present a challenge to that frustrating binarism that seeks to separate science from the humanities, and after last month’s…

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Transfixed: The Radical Feminist Body

Churnjeet Mahn July 1, 2012 1 Comment biological essentialism Calliope David Reimer case Detroit race riots 1967 feminism FWSA gender politics Jeffrey Eugenides Judith Butler Radfem radical feminist body Sheila Jeffreys transsexuality

Last month the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) listserv spilled into a public debate about the exclusion of women not biologically…

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Gaming and the Novel

Marianne Corrigan July 1, 2012 5 Comments Alexander Galloway Barry Atkins biotechnology China Mieville computer game cyborg fictional form gaming Gary K. Wolfe Haruki Murakami inter-connectivity intertextuality Jonatham Letham Luka and the Fire of Life post-genre Railsea Salman Rushdie Weird Fition

In ‘Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System’, Scott Bukatman argues that ‘The body is no longer simply the repository of the soul; it has become…