{"id":1303,"date":"2021-09-08T08:42:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T08:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2022-08-20T20:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T20:16:26","slug":"online-book-talk-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/events\/booktalk\/online-book-talk-hurley-infrastructures-of-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Online book talk: Hurley, Infrastructures of Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greenhouse book talk: Hurley\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/646546478?h=792c50e6c4&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"819\" height=\"512\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jessica Hurley, Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University, discussed her book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/infrastructures-of-apocalypse\">Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex<\/a> (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, November 15 at 16:00 in Norway.<\/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 Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex (University of Minnesota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-booktalk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}