{"id":2396,"date":"2023-12-09T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T14:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=2396"},"modified":"2023-12-09T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T14:51:45","slug":"jessica-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/jessica-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Hurley &#8211; Infrastructures of Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jessica Hurley, Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, discussed her book\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/infrastructures-of-apocalypse\">Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex<\/a>\u00a0(University of Minnesota Press, 2020) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 15 November 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since 1945, America has spent more resources on nuclear technology than any other national project. Although it requires a massive infrastructure that touches society on myriad levels, nuclear technology has typically been discussed in a limited, top-down fashion that clusters around powerful men. In&nbsp;<em>Infrastructures of Apocalypse<\/em>, Jessica Hurley turns this conventional wisdom on its head, offering a new approach that focuses on neglected authors and Black, queer, Indigenous, and Asian American perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exchanging the usual white, male \u201cnuclear canon\u201d for authors that include James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ruth Ozeki,&nbsp;<em>Infrastructures of Apocalypse<\/em>&nbsp;delivers a fresh literary history of post-1945 America that focuses on apocalypse from below. Here Hurley critiques the racialized urban spaces of civil defense and reads nuclear waste as a colonial weapon. Uniting these diverse lines of inquiry is Hurley\u2019s belief that apocalyptic thinking is not the opposite of engagement but rather a productive way of imagining radically new forms of engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Infrastructures of Apocalypse<\/em>&nbsp;offers futurelessness as a place from which we can construct a livable world. It fills a blind spot in scholarship on American literature of the nuclear age, while also offering provocative, surprising new readings of such well-known works as&nbsp;<em>Atlas Shrugged<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;Infinite Jest<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Angels in America<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>Infrastructures of Apocalypse<\/em>&nbsp;is a revelation for readers interested in nuclear issues, decolonial literature, speculative fiction, and American studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Hurley, Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, discussed her book\u00a0Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex\u00a0(University of Minnesota Press, 2020) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2021-11-15-Hurley.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2021-11-15-Hurley_pod.jpg","cover_image_id":"2398","duration":"1:01:04","filesize":"44.42M","filesize_raw":"46578994","date_recorded":"2021-11-15","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[],"series":[16],"class_list":["post-2396","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","hentry","series-greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2021-11-15-Hurley_pod.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-download\/2396\/jessica-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse","player_link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/2396\/jessica-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse","audio_player":"<a class=\"wp-embedded-audio\" href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/2396\/jessica-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse\">https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast-player\/2396\/jessica-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse<\/a>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/id1664960759","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"rss":{"key":"rss","url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks\/","label":"RSS","class":"rss","icon":"rss.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0TNTSCl3zRBues4Eqjkwwm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/feed\/podcast\/greenhouse-environmental-humanities-book-talks","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AgyrGKKiGk\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/jessica-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse\/\">Jessica Hurley &#8211; Infrastructures of Apocalypse<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/jessica-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse\/embed\/#?secret=AgyrGKKiGk\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Jessica Hurley &#8211; Infrastructures of Apocalypse&#8221; &#8212; The Greenhouse Book Talks\" data-secret=\"AgyrGKKiGk\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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