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/
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:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbYJ2JwSn4
Blog: 'Nothing is "100% Human Authored"' [introducing the 100% Inhuman Made
badges project], LSE Impact
blog:https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/04/27/nothing-is-100-human-authored/
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