The mother of all bo(m)bs : apocalyptic visions in Twin Peaks: The Return

Komel, Mirt (author)

The article focuses on David Lynch and Mark Frost’s tv-series Twin Peaks: The Return – especially on episode 8 where we can see the ancestral goddess Joudy giving birth to the evil entity bob during the Trinity nuclear test from July 16th of 1945 – in order to tackle the issue of past and present atomic anxieties (which are intrinsically linked to post-WWII geopolitics, the role of class-struggle in capitalism, and the problem of sexuality in a patriarchal society) while employing a theoretical approach that is mainly grounded in (post-)structuralism combined with other philosophical references as well, but also drawing from various approaches made towards the specific topic of the Twin Peaks phenomena as advanced in the field of cultural studies.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Twin Peaks, David Lynch, atomic bomb, post-modernism, post-structuralism
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 31-44
• Numbering: Letn. 55, št. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-153496
• UDC: 141.78:791-24
• ISSN on article: 0587-5161
• DOI: 10.26493/2630-4082.55.31-44
• COBISS.SI-ID: 180121347
• Publication date in RUL: 10.01.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Anthropos. časopis za psihologijo in filozofijo ter za sodelovanje humanističnih ved
• Shortened title: Anthropos
• Publisher: Društvo psihologov Slovenije, Slovensko filozofsko društvo
• ISSN: 0587-5161
• COBISS.SI-ID: 736516

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Mati vseh bo(m)b-ov

Abstract

Članek se osredotoča na tretjo sezono tv-serije Twin Peaks: vrnitev – še zlasti na osmo epizodo, v kateri lahko vidimo pradavno božanstvo Joudy, kako porodi zlobno entiteto bob tekom jedrskega testa Trinity s 16. julija 1945 –, da bi s pomočjo teoretskega pristopa, ki je (povečini) utemeljen v (post-)strukturalizmu in drugih filozofskih ter kulturoloških referencah, zapopadel pretekle in sedanje atomske tesnobe (intrinzično vezane na geopolitično situacijo, kakor se je vzpostavila po drugi svetovni vojni, na vlogo razrednega boja v kapitalizmu in na problem seksualnosti v patriarharni družbi).

• Keywords: televizijske nadaljevanke, postmodernizem, poststrukturalizem, jedrska bomba