Doctoral Dissertation Research: Project Plowshare and the Politics of Geographic Engineering

科罗拉多州博尔德市的科尔希，斯科特大学从1957年到1973年，美国原子能委员会(AEC)通过耕作计划推行“和平利用核爆炸”。核挖掘，即引爆战略埋在地下的氢弹，用于大规模的土方工程，被认为是犁头应用中最有前途的。这项研究的目的是调查科学、意识形态和政治之间的碰撞，正是这些碰撞最终将犁头设计挡在了景观之外。主要研究将侧重于与AEC相关的档案材料，这些材料记录了犁头份额的科学和宣传目标，以及表达关于犁份额的科学和政治辩论的公共话语。这项研究将论证，为了理解景观形成的过程，我们必须利用想象中的未能形成的景观。这部作品融合了当代景观生产理论，以解开科学知识积累和空间生产之间的复杂关系。

Kirsch, Scott U. of Colorado, Boulder From 1957 to 1973, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) pursued the `peaceful use of nuclear explosives` through Project Plowshare. Nuclear excavation, the detonation of strategically buried hydrogen bombs for massive earthmoving, was considered the most promising of the Plowshare applications. The purpose of the research is to investigate the collisions of science, ideology and politics which ultimately kept Plowshare designs out of the landscape. Primary research will emphasize AEC-related archival materials which document Plowshare's scientific and promotional aims, as well as, the public discourse through which scientific and political debates over Plowshare were voiced. The research will argue that to understand processes through which landscapes are made, we must utilize the imagined landscapes which fail to take form. The work incorporates contemporary theories of landscape production to untangle the complex relations between the accumulation of scientific knowledge and the production of space.