Peter C. Van Wyck

Peter C. van Wyck is a researcher, writer and Professor of communication and media studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. His theoretical and creative work arises from multidisciplinary training in forestry, ecological sciences, philosophy, communication and media studies. He has published widely on environmental themes including deep ecology and nuclear history and culture. Recent writings include The Highway of the Atom (McGill-Queen’s UP 2010), chapters in Thinking with Water and Bearing Witness (both McGill-Queen’s UP 2013); a photographic essay “An Archive of Threat” in Future Anterior; “Theory in a Cold Climate,” a special volume of Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (2014); and “The Anthropocene’s Signature,” a catalogue essay for The Nuclear Culture Source Book (Black Dog 2016). His current projects include experimenting with a cloud chamber to photograph radioactive decay from nuclear wastes; an edited collection (with Livia Monet) entitled Toxic Immanence: the Place of Twenty-First Century Nuclear Environmental Humanities (MQUP); and a monograph entitled The Angel Turns: Memos for the end of the Holocene – completing a trilogy of nuclear themed works.