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Thomas Keating et al

Thomas Keating is a Postdoctoral researcher at Tema Technology and Social Change at Linköping University. Investigates problems that arise in the relationship between man and technology such as how to preserve the memory of sites for final disposal of nuclear waste in Sweden in the distant future.

Author list of full paper includes:
Dr Thomas Keating (Linköping University, Sweden); Prof Anna Storm (Linköping University, Sweden); Prof Marcel Danesi (University of Toronto, Canada); Dr Vincent Ialenti (California State Polytechnic University); Prof Rosemary Joyce (University of California, Berkeley, USA); Dr Leila Dawney (University of Exeter, UK); Dr Francesco Mazzucchelli (University of Bologna), Italy); Dr Mikael Jensen (retired analyst for the Swedish Nuclear Waste the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, Sweden); Dr Jean-Noël Dumont (retired head of memory program at The French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (Andra), France).

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Articles by Thomas Keating et al

  1. THE TIME & TEMPORALITIES OF NUCLEAR WASTE

    This paper focuses on the notions of “time” and “temporality” of nuclear waste, as well as the different time horizons implied by practitioners of nuclear waste storage. In doing so, the paper develops understandings of a key problem defining nuclear waste storage in C21: namely, how to communicate information and memory over the 100,000 years that highly radioactive nuclear matter remains a threat to organic life. This question is notable not least because it involves the proposition of communicating with “deep time” future scenarios in which contemporary representational systems are ineffectual, and even the existence of the “human” is in doubt.

  2. Atomic heritage: Examining materiality, colonialism, and the speculative time of nuclear legacies

    At the 4-days conference Atomic Heritage an international group of speakers discussed the legacies and geographies of nuclear cultures in sites ranging from Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Japan, certain Pacific Islands, France, the UK, Sweden, the USA, and Germany -- to name but a few.

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