Haunted Mountains, Supershelters, and the Afterlives of Cold War Infrastructure
A dominant architectural form in the global North since the end of the Second World War, the deep-level supershelters, command centers, and hidden fortifications built within mountains mobilize an ambivalent imaginary called here the bunker fantasy'. This cluster of images is simultaneously te...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Equinox Publ.
2019
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Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
Année: 2019, Volume: 13, Numéro: 2, Pages: 208-229 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Montagne
/ Sanctuaire
/ Bunker
/ Conflit Est-Ouest
/ Armement nucléaire
/ Apocalyptique
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse AZ Nouveau mouvement religieux KBA Europe de l'Ouest KBQ Amérique du Nord TK Époque contemporaine ZC Politique en général |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Mount Shasta
B Cold War B sacred mountains B Bunker fantasy B supershelter |
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| Résumé: | A dominant architectural form in the global North since the end of the Second World War, the deep-level supershelters, command centers, and hidden fortifications built within mountains mobilize an ambivalent imaginary called here the bunker fantasy'. This cluster of images is simultaneously technologized and sacred. During the Cold War, imagined mountain bunkers in nuclear war fiction are shown to be haunted by what they exclude. After the Cold War, repurposed mountain-side bunkers and installations invoke new forms of the sacred as part of their reckoning with the past. Because the nuclear condition works against a progressive sense of history, it permits previously discredited or marginalized beliefs to begin recirculating in a new context. Through sacred mountains like Mount Shasta, the apocalyptic prospect of nuclear war becomes just one element within a cosmic and cyclical history that imagines alternate possibilities for the twentieth century. |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4915 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religion, nature and culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/jsrnc.36575 |