The Art of Un-Making: Nagasaki, Eniwetok, Mururoa, and J.G. Ballard

This paper analyzes one kind of Ballardian landscape, wastelands created by nuclear explosions, and aims at interpreting them as a study of the un-making of the human-made world. Cityscapes of ruins, crumbling concrete concourses and parking lots, abandoned barracks and military stations, radiation...

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Main Author: Oramus Dominika
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-01-01
Series:Open Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2019-0049