Ever since the end of the cold war, the subject of nuclear war and the threat it poses to humanity has suffered a "peculiar invisibility." This is the phrase the German philosopher Günther Anders used in his book The Obsolescence of the Human (1956) to illuminate the roots of the "Apokalypse-Blindheit"—"apocal
Ever since the end of the cold war, the subject of nuclear war and the threat it poses to humanity has suffered a "peculiar invisibility." This is the phrase the German philosopher Günther Anders used in...
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Ever since the end of the cold war, the subject of nuclear war and the threat it poses to humanity has suffered a "peculiar invisibility." This is the phrase the German philosopher Günther Anders used in his book The Obsolescence of the Human (1956) to illuminate the roots of the "Apokalypse-Blindheit"—"apocal
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