{"product_id":"signs-of-danger-peter-c-van-wyck-9780816637638","title":"Signs Of Danger: Waste, Trauma, and Nuclear Threat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuestions the literal burying of the nuclear threat and how it relates to expectations for our future\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA rising ocean. A falling building. A toxic river. Species extinguished. A nuclear landscape. In a world so configured, the state of contemporary ecological thought and practice is woefully-and perilously-inadequate. Focusing on the government's nuclear waste burial program in Carlsbad, New Mexico, \u003ci\u003eSigns of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e begins the urgent work of finding a new way of thinking about ecological threat in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad began receiving shipments in 1999. With a proposed closing date of 2030, this repository for nuclear waste must be secured with a sign, the purpose of which will be to keep people away for three hundred generations. In the official documents uncovered by Peter van Wyck, we encounter a government bureaucracy approaching the issue of nuclear waste as a technical problem only to find itself confronting a host of intractable philosophical issues concerning language, culture, and history. \u003ci\u003eSigns of Danger\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs these depths as it shows us how the problem raised in the desert of New Mexico is actually the problem of a culture grappling with ecological threats and with questions of the limits of meaning and representation in the deep future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reflections at the center of this book-on memory, trauma, disaster, representation, and the virtual-are aimed at defining the uniquely modern status of environmental and nuclear threats. They offer invaluable insights into the interface of where culture ends and nature begins, and how such a juncture is closely linked with questions of risk, concepts of history, and the cultural experience of time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2005 Gertrude J. Robinson Book Prize of the Canadian Communication Association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter C. Van Wyck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816637636\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816637638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.08h x 7.02w x 0.45d","brand":"Peter C. Van Wyck","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926483173631,"sku":"9780816637638","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_abd4a46c-19cb-4fdc-9df2-3b8d4b037e41.jpg?v=1681083321","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/signs-of-danger-peter-c-van-wyck-9780816637638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}