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Waste-Wilderness: A conversation with Peter L. Galison | FOP

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Peter L. Galison is a historian, writer, award winning filmmaker and the Pellegrino University Professor in History of Science and Physics at Harvard University. He was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009, he won the Max Planck Prize in 1999, and was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1997. Jamie Kruse (of FOP) had the opportunity to sit with him for an hour in mid-October, 2010 and discuss a few points of shared interest. Galison’s current research explores the intersections of forbidden wilderness and nuclear wasteland. He recently delivered the Fifth John McDonald Moore Memorial Lecture at The New School, addressing “speculation as it pertains to these inaccessible sites, focusing on “nuclear wastelands” and “pure wilderness.” Galison argues that the categories of wastelands and wilderness are far from dichotomous; that their relation is far more intriguing (and disturbing) than a binary of purity and corruption. Removing parts of the earth in perpetuity – for reasons of sa

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