Nuclear Theory Degree Zero: Essays Against the Nuclear Android

Drew Milne edited 'Marxist Literary Theory' (Blackwell,1996) with Terry Eagleton and 'Modern Critical Thought' (Blackwell, 2003). He has published numerous essays on critical theory and poetics. His collected poems – 'In Darkest Capital' – were published by Carcanet in 2017. Recent chapbooks include: 'Earthworks' (Equipage, 2018), 'Lichens in Antarctica' (Institute of Electric Crinolines, 2019) and 'Cutting Carbons' (Institute of Electric Crinolines, 2019). He is the Judith E Wilson Reader in Poetics, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK, and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, UK.John Kinsella’s most recent volumes of poetry include Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems 1980-2015 (Picador, 2016), The Wound (Arc, 2018) and Insomnia (Picador, 2019). His recent fiction includes Lucida Intervalla (novel; Dalkey Archive, 2018) and Hollow Earth (novel; Transit Lounge, 2019). His volumes of criticism include Activist Poetics: Anarchy in the Avon Valley (Liverpool University Press, 2010) and Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press, 2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK, and Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Australia.

• Introduction: Nuclear Theory Degree Zero, with Two Cheers for DerridaDrew Milne and John Kinsella1. Beyond Our Nuclear Entanglement: Love, Nuclear Pain and the Whole Damn ThingBaden Offord2. The Medical Implications of Fukushima For Medical StudentsHelen Caldicott3. Radioactive Waste and Australia's Aboriginal People Jim Green4. "Nuclear Consumed Love" Atomic Threats and Australian Indigenous Activist Poetics Matthew HallUnderminingJohn Kinsella and Charmaine Papertalk Green5. That’s Why We Came Here: Feminist Cinema(S) At Greenham Common Sophie MayerNuclear Song Drew Milne6. Poetry After Hiroshima? Notes on Nuclear ImplicatureDrew Milne7. Affective Rhetoric and The Cultural Politics of Determinate NegationTom BristowTwo PoemsJohn Kinsella8. Going Nuclear: Notes on Sudden Extinction In What Remains Of Post-Nuclear CriticismJonty Tiplady9. Atomic Guildswomen Redell Olsen10. Postludes: Cinema at the End of the WorldLouis Armand11. Bibliographical Resources for Nuclear CriticismHarriet David