Vile Incubator: A Pathology of the Cold War Bunker.
This article presents a 'pathology' of the Cold War bunker via an analysis of the decay, entropy and post-human fecundity to be found within the closed system of these now abandoned man-made protective cavities. Opening with a contextual overview of current research in bunker studies, and providing...
| Publicado en: | Journal of War & Culture Studies Vol. 13; no. 1; pp. 11 - 33 |
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