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Cryptic concrete : a subterranean journey into Cold War Germany / by Ian Klinke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klinke, Ian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nuclear weapons--Government policy--Germany (West).
- Nuclear weapons.
- Geopolitics--Germany--History--20th century.
- Geopolitics.
- Biopolitics--Germany--History--20th century.
- Biopolitics.
- Bunkers (Fortification)--Germany (West).
- Bunkers (Fortification).
- Guided missile bases--Germany (West).
- Guided missile bases.
- Civil defense--Germany (West)--History.
- Civil defense.
- Military maneuvers--Germany (West).
- Military maneuvers.
- Nuclear warfare--Government policy--Germany (West).
- Nuclear warfare.
- Landscapes--Germany (West).
- Landscapes.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2018.
- Summary:
- Cryptic Concrete explores bunkered sites in Cold War Germany in order to understand the inner workings of the Cold War state. * A scholarly work that suggests a reassessment of the history of geo- and bio-politics * Attempts to understand the material architecture that was designed to protect and take life in nuclear war * Zooms in on two types of structures - the nuclear bunker and the atomic missile silo * Analyzes a broad range of sources through the lens of critical theory and argues for an appreciation of the two subterranean structures' complementary nature
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface
- Chapter One Of Blood and Soil
- The Death of German Geopolitics
- West Germany and the Bomb
- Towards a Cold War Biopolitics
- The Bunker and the Camp
- Approach and Structure
- Endnotes
- Chapter Two Lebensraum and Its Underside
- In Defence of the Earth
- The Rise of German Geopolitics
- Life and Death in the German Geopolitical Tradition
- From Abstraction to Materialisation
- Complementary Archetypes
- Autoimmunity
- Chapter Three Return to the Soil
- Jumping the Big Pond
- The Rebirth of German Geopolitics
- The Contours of a New German Geopolitics
- Return to the Soil
- Beyond the Taboo
- Chapter Four Nuclear Living Space
- Überlebensraum
- Civil Defence and the Return of the Bunker
- From Camp to Bunker
- Overlaps and Inversions
- Opening
- Chapter Five Spaces of Extermination
- Places of Forgetting
- Sharing the Bomb
- The Architecture of Missile Storage
- Raum Ohne Volk
- Razor Wire and its Discontents
- Chapter Six Enter the Void
- Nuclear Play
- Fallex 66
- A War Game and Its Reception
- Subterranean Play
- Self-Annihilation
- The Death Drive of German Geopolitics
- Chapter Seven Conclusion
- The Nuclear Present
- Ruin Value
- References
- Index
- EULA.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781119261124
- 1119261120
- 9781119261155
- 1119261155
- OCLC:
- 1021060069
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