Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word

Schwenger, Peter

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“…When sentences burst, as he cites of Maurice Blanchot's The Writing of Disaster, truth is also thrown into question, a moment when "'knowledge becomes finer and lighter,'" and finally abandons its position of mastery to efface itself. 10 Here are two sides to truth: a strategic dismantling and controlling to garner success in war and a suspension and revocation to arrive at creative possibility. This continuum, as will be discussed below, is not by accident.…”

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Leaflet Drop: The Paper Landscapes of War

Gabrys

2004

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War. The possibility at last exists that war may be defeated on the linguistic plane. If war is an extreme metaphor, we may defeat it by devising metaphors that are even more extreme.-J. G. Ballard, "Project for a Glossary of the Twentieth Century" 1 Leaflets were first deployed as a tactical weapon of war by the Germans during World War I to announce their imminent descent upon Paris [Fig 1]. From that time forward, paper has rained from the skies during nearly every war (including the Cold War) to persuade the enemy to abandon its position [Fig. 2]. 2 More recently, a storm of text inundated landscapes in Iraq, where millions of leaflets were routinely dropped by the United States military both prior to and during the war to demoralize soldiers and civilian workers. According to

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Leaflet Drop: The Paper Landscapes of War

Gabrys

2004

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“…Although these works do not consciously engage nuclear criticism they continue its spirit of contributing to the public discussion of nuclear issues and recognize that our nuclear experiences are disciplined by both material arsenals and textual archives. 11 Nuclear criticism has inspired a great diversity of scholarship including deconstructionism (Baudrillard, 1994(Baudrillard, , 1995Chaloupka, 1992;Derrida, 1984;Klein, 1984bKlein, , 1990Luckhurst, 1993;McCanles, 1984;Norris, 1987Norris, , 1992Norris, , 1994Schwenger, 1990Schwenger, , 1992, literature studies (Brians, 1987(Brians, , 1990Caws, 1984;Dewey, 1990;Dowling, 1987;Gery, 1996;Messmer, 1988;Nadel, 1988;Osteen, 1990;Porter, 1990;Robinson, 1985;Smetak, 1990;Weiss, 1990), pedagogical studies (Bosmajian, 1990;Zins, 1990), popular culture studies (Broderick, 1991;Ferguson, 1984;MacCannell, 1984;Weart, 1988), and semiotics (Sofia, 1984;Solomon, 1988Solomon, , 1990. Despite this diversity and several attempts to synthesize and refocus nuclear criticism (Klein, 1990;Luckhurst, 1993;Ruthven, 1993;Scheick, 1990;<...>…”

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