Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age - Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique - Calum Lister Matheson - Books - The University of Alabama Press - 9780817319984 - November 13, 2018
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Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age - Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique


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Explores world-ending fantasies through the lens of psychoanalysis to reveal their implications for both contemporary apocalyptic culture and the operations of language itself. What accounts for the enduring power of the Bomb as a symbol? What does the prospect of annihilation suggest about language and its limits?


200 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released November 13, 2018
ISBN13 9780817319984
Publishers The University of Alabama Press
Pages 200
Dimensions 160 × 233 × 20 mm   ·   423 g

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