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The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness
Author(s)
Marder, Michael
Tondeur, Anaïs
Language
EnglishAbstract
We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images — one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions, thoughts, and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed, on the one hand, and the generally applicable and universal, on the other. Through words and images, we wish to contribute our humble share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl. Unthinkable and unrepresentable as it is, we insist on the need to reflect upon, signify, and symbolize it, taking stock of the consciousness it fragmented and, perhaps, cultivating another, more environmentally attuned way of living.
Keywords
chernobyl; images; recollections; nuclear radiation; meditations; photograms; reflections; Anapa; Cotton paper; Metaphysics; Radioactive decay; UkraineDOI
10.26530/OAPEN_606220ISBN
9781785420276OCN
1030821438Publisher
Open Humanities PressPublication date and place
2016Series
Critical Climate Change,Classification
The Arts
Philosophy
The environment
Climate change