Jesse Goldstein. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018. 232 pp., figures, index. $25.00 paper (ISBN 9780262535076).We are delighted to introduce this forum on Goldstein's Planetary Improvement: Clea...

This short review reckons with personal loss to explicate the material ethics of Shannon Cram's book Unmaking Bomb and diagnostic utopian politics impossibility.

“Alien still life” examines the conversion of Rocky Flats, a plutonium factory located near Denver, Colorado, from nuclear weapons plant to national wildlife refuge. It argues that territorial and administrative category ‘wildlife refuge’ aided an incentives-based cleanup accelerated turnover site public as limited-use recreational space, in process ‘fixing’ waste external wilderness. Simultaneously, technique ‘legacy management’, response growing number decommissioned remediated US...

This article addresses biomedical forms of racial targeting under neoliberal biopolitics. We explore two technologies: The development race-based pharmaceuticals, specifically BiDil; and medical hot spotting, a practice that uses Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies spatial profiling to identify populations are medically vulnerable in order facilitate preemptive care. These ostensibly deployed biopolitics the governance health affirm life. argue, however, these efforts further...

This article explores the cleanup and conversion of former plutonium production facility Rocky Flats, located near Denver, Colorado, into a wildlife refuge. The addresses ethical demands ‘post-nuclear’ nature refuge offers transnatural ethics aesthetics in response, relational that seeks to take waste as inspiration. employs performative persona Denver-based drag queen comedienne Nuclia Waste explore how practice might figuratively reconstruct subjectivity develop queer-ecology approach....

Click to increase image sizeClick decrease size Notes 1. For US statistics, see American Cancer Society (2009 . 2009 Breast cancer facts and figures, 2009–2010 Atlanta , GA : http://www.cancer.org/acs/groups/content/@nho/documents/document/f861009final90809pdf.pdf (accessed December 2011). [Google Scholar]). UK refer Laurance (2011 J. 2011 breast rates continue relentless rise The Independent February 4....

Military-industrial practices have left widespread contamination affecting land, water, air, and human nonhuman bodies. This article uses decolonial analysis to examine the racial-colonial foundations that underlie contemporary efforts reuse former U.S. military land for development projects. Interrelating scholarship on security with of militarization political ecology, I use "geosocial spectacle" probe material pedagogical governance, frontier logics, colonial aesthetics emerge through...

Data visualizations related to COVID-19 operate as forms of spectacle essential the racialized governance pandemic. Guy Debord theorized separation—between subjects, populations, regions, dots on a map. We extend and revise Debord's framework spectacle, drawing Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition racism Sylvia Wynter's critique monohumanism position ways seeing separation: constructed that divide partition. In this sense, contributes material geographies race racism: what W.E.B. Du Bois...

This article explores changing American death care – the handling of dead body and its materiality beyond in context US-based power relations over administration human remains. The briefly surveys efforts to make afterlife more ‘sustainable’. I argue that this expanding governance entails intensified bioremediation: reuse reprocessing bodies/parts, forms material-biological extraction, conversion biovalue death. First, some disposal encourage an economy body/parts a utilitarian ethic ‘no...

“Where eagles dare” is an ethno-fable about the conversion of toxic Rocky Mountain Arsenal to wildlife nature preserve, supplemented by academic and personal subsurface guide that considers remediation beneath surface.

How are we to understand and navigate the ways that biomedicine extends beyond formal institutions of clinic, hospital, lab, is incorporated into broader social practices, from intimate embodied knowledges self biosecurity rationales? We propose a return Lennard Davis's call (2006. 'Life, Death, Biocultural Literacy'. The Chronicle Higher Education 52:18, B9) for biocultural studies, but with sharpened focus on way biomedical logics circulate in everyday life under late liberalism. In this...

Rampant COVID-19 outbreaks in US nursing homes have presented a massive biosecurity problem for the nation, bringing into stark relief racialized stratification of eldercare administration and long-term care. This paper, by foregrounding ways racial capitalism drives chronic devaluation home residents staff, provides an overview how racism ageism operate geographically through political ecologies COVID relation to organization industry, medical scarcity, care labor, pandemic response elderly...

This essay explores the deployment of hope within biomedicine. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s account biopolitics, it argues that works in service biopolitical imperatives to govern life, and secure, optimize, speculate life. The broadly considers operations affect biomedicine, specifically examines governing function affective conventions hope—that is, perceptual, emotional, corporeal modes managing responding events support biomedicine’s telos toward affirmation In relation illness,...

This paper explores the Shanghai 2010 World Expo to show how spectacle serves a governing function of Chinese developmental state. I introduce soil exegesis as method excavate sedimented power relations spectacle, undergirding expo’s presentation. approach investigates is state-territorializing project and pedagogical venture that relies on denies state socialist-era’s waste, produce ‘new nature’ perform socio-technical management crisis crowds. Dynamic rearrangement quality composition...

Abstract This ficto-criticism piece explores breast cancer detection in the context of risk and biopolitics, response develops “cancer glam” as a practice critical-reflective embodiment relational-material ontology. An array technologies numerous figures, such cyborg, monster, survivor, BRCA1 BRCA2 genes are visited along way. Keywords: detectionriskbiopoliticsmonsterglamqueer Acknowledgements “Mammary Glam” is dedicated to my mother, for supporting irreverent responses elsewhere,...

This paper addresses U.S. pandemic-related propaganda, as a mode of administering society, selves, and the COVID-19 virus relevant to other national contexts. The examines what I call pandemic revanchism, which, in order stoke culture wars, propag(and)ates epidemic by sensationalizing trivial normalizing extraordinary or absurd. Banal forms administrative grotesquerie mobilize community alt-health (non)sense tie freedom viral literally infectious resentment retaliatory collateral mortality....

Research Article| May 01 2008 Shanghaiing the Future: A De-tour of Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall Shiloh R. Krupar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 307–320. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2007-027 Cite Icon Share Twitter Permissions Citation Krupar; Hall. 1 2008; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Dropdown Menu input auto suggest filter...