{"product_id":"empire-of-deterrence-nuclear-weapons-and-the-containment-of-politics-9781917516037","title":"Empire of Deterrence: Nuclear Weapons and the Containment of Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eA nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to 'automate' much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Deterrence\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how nuclear strategy, once framed as a tool for security, has become an invisible but ever-present law -- shaping the very foundations of political authority, economic order, and cultural imagination in the Anglosphere. Rather than merely deterring conflict, nuclear logic now smothers dissent, flattens alternatives, and enforces a regime of stasis masquerading as stability. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on a vast range of Cold War-era thought and culture -- from the strategic philosophy of Paul Virilio to the haunting dramas of Stephen Poliakoff, the aesthetics of Folk Horror, and the metaphysical critiques of the Kyoto School -- this book traces how deterrence became hardwired into governance, ideology, and the feedback loops of Western managerial culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once theoretical and urgent, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Deterrence\u003c\/i\u003e asks: How did nuclear logic come to rule us? Can we break its psychic grip? And is it still possible to think and act beyond the empire it sustains?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Gardiner\u003c\/b\u003e has written a number of books of cultural history, comparative culture, and fiction, and has taught at the University of Warwick. He lives in the north of England.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51648941359378,"sku":"9781917516037","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c6e359c9-0c37-49f9-b702-5400d6b45700.jpg?v=1759839456","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/empire-of-deterrence-nuclear-weapons-and-the-containment-of-politics-9781917516037","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}