Das Augenmerk der Literatur galt bislang visuellen Repräsentationen von Feuerbällen, Atompilzen und Ruinen von Städten, die staatlicherseits zur emotionalen Kontrolle der Bevölkerung instrumentalisiert wurden.

Being traversed by various processes of “deterritorialization” the bunker lost its function as a locus of secured passage and transformed into a highly dynamic “empty space” that hides, till this day, residua for creativity and difference.ĭer vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Sinnes- und Emotionsgeschichte der atomaren Bedrohung im Kalten Krieg. By ignoring, distorting, or violating the constant prewar situation in their homes, Swiss people, as early as in the 1970s, started to undermine the shelter as an instance of concrete governmentality. However, this “territorializing” process launched by the state with the aim of engineering a “bomb-proof” society met with little success. By studying the operational scripts of the authorities and the spatial arrangements and artifacts of the shelter, the paper argues that a sequenced set of “rites of passage” were to be practiced in order to guarantee a transition into the postapocalypse without any violations of norms, social roles, and affective regimes. Drawing on poststructural theories of social practice and ritual theory, the all-pervasive structures in the private sphere are analyzed as transitory spaces that coordinate the movement and connections between different milieus, regimes, and bodies. Since the 1960s, the country has built hundreds of thousands of nuclear bomb shelters in family homes. This paper explores the worldwide unprecedented bunker infrastructure of Switzerland.

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