POLI 432 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Fearless Girl
21 Aug 2019
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Nuclear waste: commemorative vigilance and temporary memorials, vimy 100th anniversary, april 2017. They put all around the memorials pairs of black boots with red poppies on them it"s a temporary addition: vietnam veterans memorial spontaneous but organized. People feel some kind of connection to the deceased, which slowly sank into the ground) Instinctive flash : usually arise at the site of a tragic event, short time after it happened. Waste and forgetting: waste isolation pilot project (wipp): facility for long term storage of high level nuclear waste in mexico desert. Create markers which will last for 10 thousands of years (not 34 because they couldn"t create something lasting so long) = max possible years for containment. Landscapes of danger: ex. spike fields, forbidding blocks assumptions: specific physical forms with inspire disgust and fear across cultures and time. Memory in this perspective is primarily a matter of emotion response similar to temporary memorials in this sense: team b: symbols of dangers.
