Monday 24 September 2018

Essay in Mosaic special issue on scale: Nuclear Hegemony and Material Indices: The Satirical Verse Boom in Daily Newspapers after Fukushima

Following Alain Badiou’s modeling of change in relation to events, this study engages New Materialist issues of human-nonhuman relations and ontologies so as to situate satirical poetry appearing in Japanese daily newspapers and tweets after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster as challenges to government and media obfuscation, thus broadening roles for creative writing in ecocriticism.
Available in Project Muse (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/703317) or email me (interpoetics at gmail dot com) and I would be happy to send a pdf.

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