Prompt 5

Blog Prompts for Nuclear Futures Course, due by March 26 (Group B)

Choose one of the following options:

  1. 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.
  2. 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).
  3. 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.

Theorizing Environmental Humanities for the Post-Fukushima Age