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Imagining a New Eden in the Nuclear West
Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History
Spring 2020
“In the case of the atomic bucolic, we also see a sleight-of-hand that embeds an unfamiliar industrial technology in a more familiar romanticized agricultural portrait.”
Image: Seagram Company Ltd. “Deserts Will Bloom through Atomic Power.” LIFE Magazine, 12 May 1947.
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Queer Encounters in the Garden
NOTCHES: (re)marks on sexuality
May 7, 2019
“Holy desire and divine intimacy are able to destabilize our understandings of God and Christian alike.”
Image: Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. Christ’s Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection. 1835. State Russian Museum.
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Science, Magic, and the Atom in Tomorrowland
Genealogies of Modernity
May 21, 2020
“Anthropomorphizing the atom transfers moral responsibility for atomic energy from the American nuclear state to a seemingly sentient infinitesimal particle.”
Image: Ed Westcott. Atoms for Peace Traveling Exhibit in Oak Ridge. 1957. 57-1239 DOE. Wikimedia Commons.
Smithsonian National Museum
of American History
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Whiteley Harvester Patent Model
Smithsonian Digital Collections
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Crop Meter
Smithsonian Digital Collections
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Bevil Wind Mill Patent Model
Smithsonian Digital Collections
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Electronic Cow Tag
Smithsonian Digital Collections
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"No-Till Saves Soil" Sign
Smithsonian Digital Collections
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Structo Toy Tractor
Smithsonian Digital Collections
