ANTHRO 1922 Nuclear Things and Toxic Colonization

Prof. Ryo Morimoto

W 12:00-2:45pm

How have the global, historical engagements with nuclear things had latent colonization effects on the contemporary and future ecologies and generations? How have the toxic effects of nuclear things been (re)presented through scientific, technological, political, and cultural interventions? This multidisciplinary course explores the material, technoscientific, and cultural transmutations of nuclear things (such as natural elements like uranium, bombs, medical devices, energy, and waste), both toxic and curative symbioses between various forms of life and radioisotopes through physics, medicine, dosimetry and radioecology as well as the work of making and remaking those transmutations and symbioses (in)visible in the world. The course draws from a variety of theoretical frameworks and case studies in science and technology studies, medicine, physics, the social sciences, history, art, and environmental and digital humanities to think with nuclear things.