Blog Prompts for Nuclear Futures Course, due by March 26 (Group B)
Choose one of the following options:
- Using Jane Bennett’s notion of assemblages, offer a vital materialist reading of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster as described in the Lochbaum (et al.) reading. Your post should integrate Bennett’s key terms and claims about distributive agency.
- Discuss the ways Doris Dörrie’s Fukushima, Mon Amour thematically and visually represents overlapping temporalities after the Tohoku Triple Disaster. In addition to reflecting on temporality, your post should offer a close reading of a particular scene or pair of scenes with an eye toward the cinematic elements that produce/reinforce your chosen theme(s).
- How does Tawada Yoko’s The Emissary put the notions of kin, care, and catastrophe together in provocatively new ways? Your answer could make connections with primary and/or theoretical texts addressing these issues from previous weeks.