“We sich heute auf die Wahrnehmung dessen beschränkt, was der Augenblick gerade an Sichtbarem bietet, der verfehlt die Realität.” Günther Anders, “Tagebuch aus Hiroshima und Nagasaki” (1958), in Hiroshima ist überall (München, 1982), 48. Translation by SL.
Akira Mizuta Lippit has insisted on the crucial importance of three interrelated “phenomenologies of the inside” that were launched in 1895: psychoanalysis, X-rays, and cinema. See Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (University of Minnesota Press, 2005), 5.
See for instance Susan Schuppli, “Radical Contact Prints,” in Camera Atomica, ed. John O’Brian (AGO/Black Dog Publishing, 2015), 284–87.
Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (Princeton University Press, 2006), 31.
“Our Literal Speed presents Vision and Communism,” in Vision and Communism (New Press, 2011), text available at →.
The notion was introduced by Quentin Meillassoux, who is critiqued by Graham Harman for remaining in thrall to correlationism; see Graham Harman, The Quadruple Object (Zero Books, 2011), 136–37.
Harman, The Quadruple Object, 19.
G. W. F. Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik I. Werke 13 (Suhrkamp, 1970), 151.
Armen Avanessian, “The Speculative End of the Aesthetic Regime,” Texte zur Kunst 93 (March 2014) →.
Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), 12–13.
Morton, Hyperobjects, 1.
Morton, Hyperobjects, 23, 81.
Morton, Hyperobjects, 3.
Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, The Ends of the World, trans. Rodrigo Nunes (Polity, 2017), 36.
Morton, Hyperobjects, 38.
Morton, Hyperobjects, 48.
Jaime Sempun, La Nucléarisation du monde (Éditions Gérard Lebovici, 1986), 30. English translation →.
Semprun, La Nucléarisation du monde, 39.
Anonymous, “Exercitatio de formis substantialibus et de qualitatibus physicis,” quoted in Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton, 2011), 250.
Karl Marx, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature (1841), Pt. 1, Ch. 3 →.
Marx, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, Pt. 1, Ch. 3.
Marx, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, Pt. 2, Ch. 1 →.
Marx, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Marx, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, Pt. 2, Ch. 5 →.
Marx, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature , Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Marx, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Marx, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature (draft of a new preface) →.
With Peter Galison’s Image & Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (University of Chicago Press, 1997), one can add a third phase after atomic and nuclear physics: postwar particle physics, dedicated to the study of ever more arcane subatomic particles. Since I focus on techoscience that fundamentally derives from the nuclear physics of the 1930s and 1940s, this distinction is less relevant here.
The TV version of Our Friend the Atom was broadcast on January 23, 1957 as part of the Disneyland anthology series. In the show, a lavishly illustrated mock-up book of that title is shown that bears little relation to the actual paperback, which is fully titled The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom.
Heinz Haber, The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom (Dell Publishing, 1956), 20–23.
Haber, The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom, 9–13.
Heinrich Schirmbeck, Die Formel und die Sinnlichkeit. Bausteine zu einer Poetik im Atomzeitalter (List Verlag, 1964), 61, 9.
Marx, quoted by Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Geistige und Körperliche Arbeit. Zur Theorie der gesellschaftlichen Synthesis (Suhrkamp, revised second edition 1972), 47–48; English version from Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology (MacMillan, 1978), 27. Sohn-Rethel’s book exists in rather different versions in German and English. I primarily use the second German edition (1972), using the English translation/reworking for occasional quotations.
Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labour, 54. The equivalent passage in Geistige und Körperliche Arbeit is on 82.
Sohn-Rethel, Geistige und körperliche Arbeit, 22.
“Diese abstrakte Natur beschreibt sich in reinen, alles Wahrgenommene, qualitative Sinnliche der Quantifuzierung unterwerfenden Begriffen und Prinzipien.” Sohn-Rethel, Geistige und körperliche Arbeit, 89. Translation by SL.
Morton, Hyperobjects, 11.
Sohn-Rethel, Geistige und körperliche Arbeit, 208–10.
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