Blog Prompts for Nuclear Futures Course, due by February 19 (Group C)

Choose one of the following options:

1. Sarah Ensor and Donna Haraway propose modes of thinking about futurity and relationality that are not grounded in the primacy of biological reproduction within the nuclear family. How do you respond to these modes? Your answer should highlight Ensor’s and Haraway ’s preferred vocabularies for envisioning the future and engage with their specific critiques of received environmental discourse.
2. In “Tentacular Thinking,” Donna Haraway interrogates the term Anthropocene, positing two other epochal names to complicate a number of the Anthropocene’s underlying assumptions. Please describe what Haraway argues are the crucial and meaningful interventions of deploying those alternative terms and articulate your own position regarding these epochal names.
3. How does environmental devastation, and nuclear disaster in particular, challenge received human time scales? Your answer should reflect on course readings from weeks three and four.