Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age
Robert McDonald
Abstract
As depicted in the critically revered eighth episode of 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, the detonation of an atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, unleashes an inhuman evil upon the...
Topics & Concepts
Desert (philosophy)Nuclear weaponDetonationPsychoanalysisHistoryPhilosophyPhysicsPsychologyArchaeologyNuclear physicsEpistemologyExplosive materialSpace Science and Extraterrestrial LifeHistory of Science and MedicineCybernetics and Technology in Society