In Radiation and Revolution political theorist and anti-capitalist activist Sabu Kohso uses the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster to illuminate the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state. Combining an activist’s commitment to changing the world with a theorist’s determination to grasp the world in its complexity, Kohso outlines how the disaster is not just a pivotal event in postwar Japan; it represents the epitome of the capitalist-state mode of development that continues to devastate the planet’s environment. The part played by Nuclear Power in terms of it’s global physical presence, supersedes the “human project” while providing clues about “dangerous dynamics” made of factors known and unknown to current knowledge, science and intervention.
“Turning the discussion of the Fukushima disaster and its ecological and social consequences into a reflection on the history of Japanese society and government from World War II to the present, Radiation and Revolution is a powerful, imaginative, and provocative…” — Silvia Federici, author of Beyond the Periphery of the Skin.
