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Jacob Weinberg: After The Crisis

After the Crisis investigates the possibility (or rather, impossibility) of crisis aversion by re-presenting the thought of US military historian Roberta Wohlstetter, who with her husband Albert Wohlstetter, significantly impacted the military and nuclear strategy of post-war United States. It presents a spoken performance of Roberta Wohlstetter's publication, Cuba and Pearl Harbor: Hindsight and Foresight, which uses information theory to analyse the successes and inevitable failures of the United States' ability to predict and a prevent national catastrophe during these two events. By omitting the specific details from these events that were originally written into the text, the performance lays bare a narrative that both addresses and produces the crises shaping international conflict today. Centring the US military machine, the resulting work exposes the limits of a seemingly unyielding power, the perils of hindsight, and questions the ends of endless information collection in a world with multiple, uncertain futures. Produced by Jacob Weinberg.

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