Fannie Frederikke Baden har spikat sin avhandling
Fannie Frederikke Badens avhandling i konsthistoria och visuella studier, ”Nuclear Baroque – Glow and Violence in the Aftermath of Chornobyl”, spikades 22 april 2026. Formell spikning har tidigare skett elektroniskt.
Disputationen äger rum på fredag 24 april kl. 10.15 i LUX:C121.
Opponent är professor emeritus David Nye, Syddansk universitet.
Nuclear Baroque: Glow and Violence in the visual aftermath of Chornobyl
Fannie Frederikke Baden
The nuclear renaissance is a term for today’s renewed faith in nuclear technology. Nuclear power is increasingly promoted as an answer to climate change and environmental inequality. But the images that shape our ideas about nuclear power are often far from positive. Instead, they tend to show a world marked by contamination and destruction. Nuclear Baroque looks at how ‘the glow’ has become a recognisable image that moves between scientific fact and cultural imagination. It makes radiation able to be understood, but also nuclear disaster palatable.
By analysing the TV series Chernobyl and the video game Chernobylite, the dissertation investigates how radioactive landscapes, bodies, and radiation are portrayed in popular culture. These representations can help us understand the effects of nuclear catastrophe, but they can also turn suffering and destruction into spectacle. Drawing on the ideals of the Baroque, the dissertation shows how nuclear disaster is made meaningful through images.
