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Cross-posted from UKR-TAZ<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukrainian Review<\/em><\/a> has published a special issue on “Legacies of Chornobyl<\/a>” that includes a fascinating interview with historian Serhii Plokhy<\/a> (who seems to be writing at the incredible rate of a book a year<\/a>) alongside several articles on the muliple dimensions of the accident and its impacts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My own piece in the issue, “Chornobyl at 40: Times and Spaces of a Hyper-Event<\/a>,” is a distillation of a much longer argument, some of which has appeared in print before<\/a> and other parts of which are still in progress. The final paragraph distills the message into a single sentence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So we have an event that is multiple things at once: an \u2018error\u2019 registering the shadowy underside of industrial modernity; the limit case of a bipolar Cold War order, now transmogrified into a multipolar geo-informational disorder; a cipher of contested narratives including those that would yoke it to Ukraine\u2019s emergent national sovereignty; an emptied yet alluring terrain of the world\u2019s shadow ecology; and a signpost on the accelerometer of the Anthropocene.  
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Read the editors’ introduction here<\/a>, my piece here<\/a>, and the rest of the issue here: https:\/\/www.londonukrainianreview.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related to this, I’ll be speaking on Terra Invicta<\/a><\/em> and the ecopolitical continuum that connects Chornobyl to the Russo-Ukrainian war in New York City tomorrow<\/a>, in Toronto next month (at the Munk School on April 20<\/a> and in Ukrainian for the Shevchenko Scientific Society on April 24), and in Montreal at the Jean Monnet Centre<\/a> on April 22 (Earth Day) and at Concordia University on April 23. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cross-posted from UKR-TAZ. Ukrainian Review has published a special issue on “Legacies of Chornobyl” that includes a fascinating interview with historian Serhii Plokhy (who seems to be writing at the incredible rate of a book a year) alongside several articles on the muliple dimensions of the accident and its impacts. 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