[spectre] 2nd edition of The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness - or, two books and a podcast

[Gary Hall]

1) Together with Michael Marder and Anaïs Tondeur, we invite you to mark 
the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with the second 
edition of /The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded 
Consciousness/.

The book is available as a free download via Open Humanities Press:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-chernobyl-herbarium-2nd-ed/ 
<https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-chernobyl-herbarium-2nd-ed/>

“We entrust readers with forty fragments of reflections, meditations, 
recollections, and images — one for each year that has passed since the 
explosion… Through words and images, we wish to contribute our humble 
share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl… taking 
stock of the consciousness it fragmented and, perhaps, cultivating 
another, more environmentally attuned way of living.”

Unthinkable and, in many ways, unrepresentable, Chernobyl continues to 
shape how we understand technology, ecology and responsibility. This 
edition offers a collective space for reflection - through text and 
images - on what it means to live with its aftermath.


2) Also, don't forget to check out our earlier Ecological Rewriting: 
Situated Engagements With The Chernobyl Herbarium, edited by Gabriela 
Méndez Cota

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/

Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium 
(2023) was the first book in OHP's Combinatorial Books: Gathering 
Flowers series. Supported by the COPIM project, it was the creation of a 
collective of researchers, students and technologists from the 
Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Led by Gabriela Méndez Cota, 
this group of nine (re)writers annotated and remixed The Chernobyl 
Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness (2015) by the 
philosopher Michael Marder and the artist Anaïs Tondeur (originally 
published in OHP’s Critical Climate Change series) to produce what is a 
new book in its own right – albeit one that comments upon and engages 
with the original.

The online version of Ecological Rewriting is an experimental 
publication with links to the original annotations that the group of 
authors made on The Chernobyl Herbarium, so that the reader can follow 
an associative trail between the two publications.


3) Lastly, a podcast featuring Sigi Jöttkandt, Joanna Zylinska and Gary 
Hall from Open Humanities Press, titled 'Friendship, and Other Ways of 
Producing Knowledge', is now available on the Scholē IRL website.

https://www.scholeirl.org/

And on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuu4XjOkK0&t=4s

‘This week, we are joined with Sigi Jöttkandt, Joanna Zylinska, and Gary 
Hall, the Directors of the Open Humanities Press,  an international 
community of scholars, editors and readers with a focus on critical and 
cultural theory and a mission to make leading works of contemporary 
critical thought available worldwide. OHP has operated as an independent 
initiative since 2006, promoting open access scholarship in journals, 
books and exploring new forms of scholarly communication. OHP’s 
organization is a community-interest company headquartered in London. 
The OHP Editorial Board is at the heart of all their activities: 
participating in journal assessments, reviewing and approving book 
series proposals, performing and managing peer review, and editing the 
OHP book series. They act on the principles of access, scholarship, 
diversity and transparency. They have also partnered with a number of 
groups and institutions to explore grass-roots solutions to the crisis 
in Humanities publishing.’

With our best wishes,
Sigi, Gary, Joanna, David (Open Humanities Press)



-- 
Gary Hall
Professor Emeritus of Media @ Coventry University
Blog:http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/

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