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Volkmar's close reading of artistic responses to nuclear power convincingly uncovers art's transformative potential, that is, to force the viewer to see and think differently and thereby create conditions for societal change. In Art and Nuclear Power, Volkmar takes the reader on an essentially hopeful journey where she identifies and articulates the selected artworks' ethical request to the viewer, to engage and care, not only for past damages or future uncertainties, but - most fundamentally - for the vulnerabilities of the present. -- Anna Storm, Linkoeping University, Sweden Anna Volkmar's exceptional close reading of nuclear artworks makes a vital contribution to understanding how contemporary visual art can help to rethink nuclear technical infrastructures in the twenty-first century. Volkmar deals with the ethical complexity of making art within nuclear landscapes and catastrophes at a time when the industry is focused on the role of art for marking geological waste storage. Without being distracted by the romanticism of deep time, Volkmar keeps focused on the matter in hand: muddling through wicked complexity dealing with ironic encounters, care and experimentation and the redistribution of power relations. -- Ele Carpenter, Umea University

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Anna Volkmar is professor of art and technology at Leiden University.

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