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Strange Love is a study of love, death and time. More than this, it is a book about a story that repeats. A narrative which, through its various iterations over four decades of political brinksmanship, charts a response to the traumas engendered by the global balance of terror, otherwise known as the cold war. What follows then is a book about trauma and survival, about death, mourning, and the denial of death, and the work of unmourning in the nuclear age, as told through a recurring story of love. Wherein the possibility of complete annihilation, and thus a form of death which is utterly incomprehensible, is not only confronted by a set of related cultural products, but in some cases wished for or, as is more common, displaced, by techno-fantasies supporting the delusion that humanity will achieve everlasting life through the same technologies that threaten its destruction. From La Jetee to the Terminator, from Vertigo to Neuromancer, this is the story of love as responsibility, of trauma, its transformation, and the work of memory.

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Warren Steele is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is the co-editor of R-evolutions: Mapping Culture, Community, and Change from Ben Jonson to Angela Carter (2009).

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