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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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 <i>The
Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness</i>.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The
book is available as a free download via Open Humanities Press:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-chernobyl-herbarium-2nd-ed/"
target="_new"><span style="color:blue">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/the-chernobyl-herbarium-2nd-ed/</span></a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">“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.”</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">2) Also, don't forget to
check out our earlier Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements
With The Chernobyl Herbarium, edited by Gabriela Méndez Cota</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/">https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/ecological-rewriting/</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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. </font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.scholeirl.org/">https://www.scholeirl.org/</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">And on YouTube here: </font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuu4XjOkK0&t=4s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPuu4XjOkK0&t=4s</a></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">‘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.’</font><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">With our best wishes,</font><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Sigi, Gary, Joanna,
David (Open Humanities Press)</font><br>
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Gary Hall
Professor Emeritus of Media @ Coventry University
Blog: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/</a>
Latest:
Podcasts: Defund Culture by Any Means Necessary: Minor Compositions Podcast - Season 2, Episode 5, with Gary Hall and Seth Wheeler, hosted by Stevphen Shukaitishttp://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/?SSScrollPosition=0
YouTube: 'Gary Hall: Defund Culture', Breaking Culture Live: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbYJ2JwSn4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbYJ2JwSn4</a>
Blog: 'Nothing is "100% Human Authored"' [introducing the 100% Inhuman Made badges project], LSE Impact blog: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/04/27/nothing-is-100-human-authored/">https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/04/27/nothing-is-100-human-authored/</a>
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