doomsday maneuvers

New work at h+, “Posthuman Nuclear Doomsday Maneuvers.”

“London, if bombed to ash and stain, reappears fully formed in Nunavut. The East End is tundra, the New Thames empties into Yathkyed Lake, and The Gherkin looks out over the vast pale planes of Keewatin. This is city as signal, nukes as noise. As culture-makers and city-builders, we have built the means to survive the noisiest possible weapon, the raw radiation and shockwave of the nuclear bomb.”