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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
7. Pollution: Porosity of Bodies
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Abstract
Porous bodies are not limited to human bodies; it is the porous bodies of water, soil, air and animals, organic and inorganic that make up our cities. This chapter presents a posthumanist narrative of nuclear radiation (as monstrous porous bodies) to explore the concept of the porosity and the entangled matter of bodies at risk on the planet. By exploring the materiality of radiation through techniques of diffraction, I consider bodies and the planet as an assemblage of non-human matter, an ecological community—invisible monstrous bodies of matter entangled in human and non-humans at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test site—and then explore the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in 2011 as an ‘un-world’. I seek through this research to expose the fragility and porosity of all matter and objects that are in relation to each other in this place. I conclude that the genealogy of our bodies is composed of our amorphous engagement with the ecosystem that makes up our planet.