I’ll be giving the following talk at the “Popular Culture, Religion, and the Anthropocene” workshop\u00a0at the National University of Singapore this coming week.<\/p>\n
Navigating the Zone of Alienation: Chernobyl and the Anthropocenic Sublime<\/strong><\/p>\n Abstract:<\/em><\/p>\n This two-part talk will interpret the Chernobyl nuclear accident and its \u201cZone of Alienation\u201d (Zona vidchuzhennia<\/em>) as a microcosm of the explosive tensions held together within the nucleus of the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n Its first part will situate the 1986 nuclear accident within a series of overlapping and nested geo-temporal reference frames, including Western and Soviet \u201ctechnological sublimes\u201d; Cold War militarism and the post-Soviet resurgence of Westphalian nationalism; cinematic and science-fictional \u201czones\u201d associated with zombies, stalkers, and posthuman futures (with special reference to Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s film Stalker<\/i> and its uptake within popular and video gaming cultures); and the deep time of the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n The second part of the talk will apply Peircian semiotics and Whiteheadian metaphysics\u00a0toward understanding the Anthropocene as a challenge calling for a new mediation of the relationship between carbon-capitalist industrialism and a dynamic Earth. It will focus on the role of the arts, particularly the \u201carts of place\u201d and of environmental and climate justice, and of sites of socio-ecological suffering and paradox (like Chernobyl), in the development of narratives adequate to navigating the rapids of the Anthropocene and its \u201cbeyond.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ll be giving the following talk at the “Popular Culture, Religion, and the Anthropocene” workshop\u00a0at the National University of Singapore this coming week. 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It'll be exactly two days after the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. And 16 days before the\u00a030th anniversary\u00a0of Mikhail Gorbachev's speech about the accident. Pravda (Truth)\u00a0first reported in any detail on the accident on May 6 and 7.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Anthropocene"","block_context":{"text":"Anthropocene","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/anthropo_scene\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"12936507_10156686380240175_3276137965878156821_n","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2016\/04\/12936507_10156686380240175_3276137965878156821_n-275x213.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9620,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2018\/04\/15\/anthroposcenic-chernobyl-in-text-image\/","url_meta":{"origin":8908,"position":1},"title":"Anthropo(s)cenic Chernobyl* in image & text","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"April 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"My Gund Institute research talk from a few months ago, on \"Navigating Earth's 'Zone of Alienation': Chernobyl and the Search for Adequate Images of the Anthropocene,\" can now be viewed online (see link below). 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