{"product_id":"empire-of-deterrence-isbn-9781917516037","title":"Empire of Deterrence","description":"\u003cb\u003eA nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpire of Deterrence\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how nuclear strategy, once framed as a tool for security, has become an invisible but ever-present law — shaping the very foundations of political authority, economic order, and cultural imagination in the Anglosphere. Rather than merely deterring conflict, nuclear logic now smothers dissent, flattens alternatives, and enforces a regime of stasis masquerading as stability.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a vast range of Cold War-era thought and culture — from the strategic philosophy of Paul Virilio to the haunting dramas of Stephen Poliakoff, the aesthetics of Folk Horror, and the metaphysical critiques of the Kyoto School — this book traces how deterrence became hardwired into governance, ideology, and the feedback loops of Western managerial culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once theoretical and urgent, \u003ci\u003eEmpire of Deterrence\u003c\/i\u003e asks: How did nuclear logic come to rule us? Can we break its psychic grip? And is it still possible to think and act beyond the empire it sustains?\u003cb\u003eMichael Gardiner\u003c\/b\u003e has written a number of books of cultural history, comparative culture, and fiction, and has taught at the University of Warwick. He lives in the north of England.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233144811749,"sku":"NP9781917516037","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781917516037.jpg?v=1767726228","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/empire-of-deterrence-isbn-9781917516037","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}