Identifying and Treating Maladaptive Responses To the Nuclear Threat

1989 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 16-22
Author(s):  
Connie Peck
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1983 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.R. Chari
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Have words lost all their meaning and have men's minds lost all anchorage? For this surely is the way to madness, and the great men who control our destinies are dangerous self-centred lunatics, who are so full of their conceit and pride of power that they will rather rain death and destruction all over the world than give up their petty opinions and think and act aright.1


1989 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Prior
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Author(s):  
Jonathan Gray

This chapter proposes the notion of the ‘data epic’, which is examined through two works of ‘cinematic data visualization’: The Fallen of World War II and The Shadow Peace: The Nuclear Threat. These pieces mobilize an aesthetics of distance to narrate life and death at scale, in past and possible global conflicts. While previous studies of quantification emphasize the function of distance in relation to aspirations of objectivity, this chapter explores other narrative and affective capacities of distance in the context of ‘public data culture’. The data epic can thus enrich understanding of how data are rendered meaningful for various publics, as well as the entanglement of data aesthetics and data politics involved in visualization practices for picturing collective life.


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