USA murated nation, or, the sublime spherology of security culture

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This article investigates David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest in terms of the links between Cold Containment, the reconfigured United States energy system and the Cold War. The essay focusses on the Reconfiguration's defensive mechanisms against waste as a retooled version of Ronald Reagan's SDI, both of which are fantasy systems imagined as constructions of glass, mirror and plastic. The materiality of these “defensive” arrangements is, then, of paramount importance: it is this trinity of substances that forms the subject of this essay.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Collignon, F.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2014 Cambridge University Press and British Association for American Studies. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of American Studies. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Dates:	Published: 1 February 2015 Published (online): 27 August 2014
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	24 Feb 2020 12:44
Last Modified:	01 Jul 2020 11:34
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1017/s0021875814001327
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:157603

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