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Nuclear Waste
Nuclear waste epitomizes the Anthropocene. Scientific discovery of nuclear fission in the 1930s ushered in the atomic age. The onset of nuclear...
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Nuclear War
War is defined differently depending on the historical and cultural context of those describing it. From the perspective of the Anthropocene,...
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Nuclear Waste and the Site of Intergenerational Responsibility
This chapter provides an outline of current practices surrounding the production and disposal of nuclear energy in the context of conceptions of...
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Substructural Nuclear (Image-Based) Logics and Operational Kripke-Style Semantics
This paper deals with substructural nuclear (image-based) logics and their algebraic and Kripke-style semantics. More precisely, we first introduce a...
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Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Esca** the Collective Action Problem
In recent years, there has been an intense public debate about whether and, if so, to what extent investments in nuclear energy should be part of...
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Political Mediation in Nuclear Waste Management: a Foucauldian Perspective
This paper aims to open up high-level waste management practices to a political philosophical questioning, beyond the enclosure implied by the...
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Why Power (Dunamis) Ontology of Causation is Relevant to Managers: Dialogue as an Illustration
Since management is about influencing - influencing people who work in the organization, the structure and practices of the organization, as well as...
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Atomic number and isotopy before nuclear structure: multiple standards and evolving collaboration of chemistry and physics
We provide a detailed history of the concepts of atomic number and isotopy before the discovery of protons and neutrons that draws attention to the...
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Power, Mass, and Brutality: Putin’s War Machine
War is neither a means nor a purpose for the enthronement of the absolute power of a nation-state such as Russia in the twenty-first century, but a...
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Research and Use of Nuclear Energy—Its Ambivalence(s) in Historical Context
The discovery of a scientific fact is initially not ambivalent; only in its possibilities of use does its ambivalence become apparent. But the...
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The Power to Connect, the Power to Relativize. What Do Values Relate To?
Some argue that values relate only within the discourse of values and not to the external world. These values are seen as existing in a sea of...
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Human-Made Risks from Nuclear and Chemical Warfare
A major human-made and general risk to life arises from the large number of weapons designed for mass destruction. The history and present potential...
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Power Dynamics in Nuclear and Extended Families: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis
Debates within the social sciences and humanities on the concept of family and on family definitions have shifted considerably. Theoretically,...
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In Conversation with Radioactive Plants: Reflecting on the Future of Contaminated Environments
This chapter discusses whether the analysis of contaminated spaces—in the present context, post-nuclear ones—could contribute to building new...
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Japan’s Soft Power and the “History Problem”
In the 1980s and 1990s, Japanese cabinets went to great lengths to achieve reconciliation with its former wartime enemies and to “come to terms” with...
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Are Language Games Also Confidence Tricks? Technology as Embodied Power and Collective Disempowerment
Mark Coeckelbergh’s mobilisation of Wittgensteinian language games makes an important contribution to exposing the social dimension of machine use....
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Analyzing the Role of Values and Ideals in the Development of Energy Systems: How Values, Their Idealizations, and Technologies Shape Political Decision-Making
This study examines an important aspect of energy history and policy: the intertwinement of energy technologies with ideals. Ideals play an important...
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Problem Structures of Bioenergy Policy in the Power and Heat Sector in Germany
The nature of problems and how they are perceived (problem structures) are decisive factors for the course and outcome of a political process. For...
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The Reformed Nuclear Theory
This chapter discusses the ‘reformed’ nuclear theory of trope bundles. The main difference of the reformed theory with the theory considered above is...