Theorist and activist Sabu Kohso has been an important voice in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Through his notion of nuclearized capitalism he has situated corporate and governance failures within a wider systemic problematic in Japan and beyond. Likewise he has articulated the diverse and generative response by activists in Japan that he has helped to catalyze. His new book Radiation and Revolution (Duke University Press, 2020) unpacks the fallout of the disaster by tracing a critical historical trajectory which led to triple meltdown that continues through to the present spectacle of the Olympics, contextualizing these events within a broader critique of the global political economy. As we enter the 10th year since the nuclear disaster, Kohso reflects on the state of Fukushima and asks us to imagine beyond half-lives to think toward enacting the full life-in-struggle that is needed to address the socio-economic order that is undoing the planet. He will be in discussion with Jason Waite (Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) co-curator of the art exhibition Don’t Follow the Wind.

The talk is supported by Christ Church College GCR Arts Office and Christ Church College JCR Arts

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