{"product_id":"radiation-and-revolution-9781478009948","title":"Radiation and Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitical theorist and anticapitalist activist Sabu Kohso uses the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to illuminate the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state, showing how nuclear power has become the organizing principle of the global order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Writer, political activist, and translator Sabu Kohso provides a timely intervention into discussions of the catastrophic event that overwhelmed Japan's Fukushima Prefecture on March 11, 2011. Kohso has brilliantly captured both the sad singularity and complex generality of the event and the unyielding process of its global consequences. At the heart of Kohso's account lies a nuclear industry now worryingly indistinguishable from global capitalism's new lease on life.” -- Harry Harootunian, author of * The Unspoken as Heritage: The Armenian Genocide and Its Unaccounted Lives *\u003cbr\u003e“Turning the discussion of the Fukushima disaster and its ecological and social consequences into a reflection on the history of Japanese society and government from World War II to the present, \u003ci\u003eRadiation and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful, imaginative, and much-needed book.” -- Silvia Federici, author of * Beyond the Periphery of the Skin *\u003cbr\u003e“With regards to the creativity both of its content and its form, \u003ci\u003eRadiation and Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes a unique work, fulfilling Deleuze’s call for philosophy to invent ready-made concepts which could seize the singularity of reality. Kohso’s notions of ‘life-in-struggle’, ‘transmutations’ and his opposition between the ‘World’ and the ‘Earth’, will assuredly find echoes in other contexts, all marked by the radiation-like planetarization of politics.” -- Philippe Blouin * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Comparing Fukushima to other nuclear incidents, such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, Kohso (who also goes by Kōso), a writer and an activist, posits that these disasters are symptomatic of another problem—that of authoritarian, capitalist power over Earth’s inhabitants, who live under persistent threat of catastrophe. The fleshing out of these ideas displays Kohso at his best, using careful research and interviews to create a compelling argument for confronting nuclear and other challenges with a global movement. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates and graduate students.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   -- J. M. Morri * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue. Writing through Fukushima  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Disaster\/Catastrophe\/Apocalypse  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Transmutation of Powers  17\u003cbr\u003e 2. Catastrophic Nation  55\u003cbr\u003e 3. Apocalyptic Capitalism  87\u003cbr\u003e 4. Climate Change of the Struggle  113\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Forget Japan  161\u003cbr\u003e Notes  167\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  183\u003cbr\u003e Index  191","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408986546519,"sku":"9781478009948","price":86.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478009948.jpg?v=1730504976","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/radiation-and-revolution-9781478009948","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}