“Commandments in the Atomic Age” by Günther Anders, 1957
Your second thought after awakening should run: ‘The possibility of the Apocalypse is our work. But we know not what we are doing’. We really don’t know, nor do they who control the Apocalypse: for they too are ‘we’, they too are fundamentally incompetent. That they too are incompetent, is certainly not their fault; rather […]
“Atomic Age Kiss?”, International News Photo, 1954
☛ New York Journal-American photographic morgue: “Atomic Age Kiss?” by International News Photo, published on December 1954. Rec. no NYJA000321. © The Ransom Center. Official description: Air raid wardens in Bonn, Germany, wearing radioactive protective clothing and masks. This photo ―which was manually retouched― is part of a folder of seven items labeled “Atomic bomb” […]
One year later: the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
☛ Radiation and man by the Canadian Nuclear Association, 1972, p. 26. Scanned and made available online by Ethan Persoff. I first spotted this diagrammatic of a nuclear power plant via Modcult. • • • I remember I first heard about what would soon be known as the Tōhoku earthquake early in the day on […]
“The Feast” by Jean-Michel Folon, 1983
☛50 Watts: “The Feast” by Jean-Michel Folon, 1983, from Folon’s Folon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990 (Amazon). From The New York Times obituary (Folon died in 2005): Known by only his last name, Folon created art that was popular in France and in the United States from the 1960’s to the present, on posters, in […]
