After Fukushima
By FUPress
11th March 2015
Today marks the 4th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Following a major earthquake, a 15-meter tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three Fukushima Daiichi reactors, causing a nuclear accident on March 11, 2011. All three cores largely melted in the first three days.
In After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy examines the nature of catastrophes in the era of globalization and technology. Can a catastrophe be an isolated occurrence? Is there such a thing as a “natural” catastrophe when all of our technologies—nuclear energy, power supply, water supply—are necessarily implicated, drawing together the biological, social, economic, and political? Nancy examines these questions and more. Exclusive to this English edition are two interviews with Nancy conducted by Danielle Cohen-Levinas and Yuji Nishiyama and Yotetsu Tonaki.
Visit DigitalResearch@Fordham to download the Table of Contents and Introduction to After Fukushima: The Equivalence of Catastrophes.
