Unusable, Dangerous, and Desirable
Unusable, Dangerous, and Desirable
Nuclear Weapons as Fetish Commodities
Chapter Three uses a Marxist approach to commodity fetishism to theorize two economies of exchange that generate a desire for nuclear weapons – the logic of deterrence as a semiotic economy of signs that make nuclear weapons “useful in their uselessness” and the logic of regulation through which nuclear weapons emerge as “luxury goods.”.
Keywords: Nuclear, Non-proliferation, Postcolonialism, Hierarchy, Inequality, Third world, Power, Order, Security, Justice
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