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Historian of science, secrecy, and nuclear weapons. Professor of STS at @FollowStevens. UC Berkeley alum with a Harvard PhD. NUKEMAP creator. Coder and web dev.

Hoboken, NJ / NYC
blog.nuclearsecrecy.com
Joined September 2011

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    1. Anna Reser‏ @AnnaNReser 6 Nov 2015
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      .@wellerstein eh, that's a cop out. If you of all people aren't going to be critical about representations of nuclear history, who is?

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    2. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 6 Nov 2015
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      @AnnaNReser I think it's a fairly complex little piece of cultural work if I do say so myself. I do put thought into these things.

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    3. Anna Reser‏ @AnnaNReser 6 Nov 2015
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      @wellerstein I see what you're getting at - it's a good impulse I just don't think you can overcome the banality of the calendar format.

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    4. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 6 Nov 2015
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      @AnnaNReser My major efforts are always about riding that line, because it's the only way anything gets beyond academic circles.

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    5. Anna Reser‏ @AnnaNReser 6 Nov 2015
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      @wellerstein no objection to your intent here. Just as a design person, I think the calendar form works against your purpose.

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    6. Anna Reser‏ @AnnaNReser 6 Nov 2015
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      @wellerstein the form itself is about being noncontroversial and pleasing to look at.

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    7. Leila A. McNeill‏ @leilasedai 6 Nov 2015
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      @AnnaNReser @wellerstein sorry to butt in but I too blinked @ the calendar medium. I had more of an issue w fetishism than contextualization

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    8. Leila A. McNeill‏ @leilasedai 6 Nov 2015
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      .@AnnaNReser @wellerstein calendars often fetishize bodies & equating the image of nuclear weapons w this platform is troubling

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    9. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 6 Nov 2015
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      @leilasedai @AnnaNReser That's an interesting association — the calendars I see are never about bodies, but it may be the circles I run in.

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    10. Leila A. McNeill‏ @leilasedai 6 Nov 2015
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      .@wellerstein @AnnaNReser just walk down the aisle at barnes&noble, firefighters, football chererleaders, pinups, &tc

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      Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 6 Nov 2015
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      @leilasedai @AnnaNReser There they are things like puppies and babies and foreign lands.

      6:21 PM - 6 Nov 2015
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        2. Anna Reser‏ @AnnaNReser 6 Nov 2015
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          @wellerstein and you don't see how putting nukes in that vocabulary trivializes them or worse- naturalizes them? Makes them banal?

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        3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 6 Nov 2015
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          @AnnaNReser I think it's trying to do exactly the opposite work, frankly.

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        4. Anna Reser‏ @AnnaNReser 6 Nov 2015
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          @wellerstein so why use a calendar? Why not an exhibition & catalog? Book? Video?

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        5. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 6 Nov 2015
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          @AnnaNReser The calendars are one of a thousand different things I am working on and playing with.

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        6. Anna Reser‏ @AnnaNReser 6 Nov 2015
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          @wellerstein and I think you should be critical of each one, that's all. See, even you're trivializing the calendar now.

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        7. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 6 Nov 2015
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          @AnnaNReser Not trivializing it, just not judging it against a book, video, exhibition.

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        2. Leila A. McNeill‏ @leilasedai 6 Nov 2015
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          .@wellerstein @AnnaNReser if banal association how are nuke weapons supposed to translate in this medium? Fetish or banal both problematic

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        3. John Stewart‏ @JohnStewartPhD 6 Nov 2015
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          @leilasedai @wellerstein @AnnaNReser trying to think of non-nana calendar - GOP primary candidate of the month

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        4. John Stewart‏ @JohnStewartPhD 6 Nov 2015
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          @leilasedai @wellerstein @AnnaNReser non-banal calendar rather

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        5. John Stewart‏ @JohnStewartPhD 6 Nov 2015
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          @leilasedai @wellerstein @AnnaNReser Would we accept chemical warfare agent of the month? Genocidal maniac of the month? Firebombed city?

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        6. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 6 Nov 2015
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          @jstew511 @leilasedai @AnnaNReser Don't you think if you did a chem warfare poster calendar it would be subversive?pic.twitter.com/6pXvv1uKI4

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        7. John Stewart‏ @JohnStewartPhD 6 Nov 2015
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          @wellerstein @leilasedai @AnnaNReser the tone of this image would help to critique Chem warfare in a way that mushrooms don't for nuclear

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        8. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 6 Nov 2015
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          @jstew511 @leilasedai @AnnaNReser Eh, I think there are lines there. (And I think the other options on there are false equivalences.)

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        1. John Stewart‏ @JohnStewartPhD 6 Nov 2015
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          @wellerstein @leilasedai @AnnaNReser I currently have a calendar of Star Wars. Like kittens or puppies its cute but not a conversation piece

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