“Thinking with Toxic Plants ‒Unruly Herbaria, Nuclear Imagination and Eco-Materialism in the Art-book The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness.”
Summary
This essay deals with plants, art, radioactive territories and nuclear imagination in the the art-book The Chernobyl Herbarium. Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness (2016) by Michael Marder and Anaïs Tondeur. In this study, I analyze how the articulation of toxic image ecologies, ghostly verbal-visual states and uncanny plant afterlives in Marder and Tondeur´s radioactive herbarium expose our energy fantasies in nuclear cultures.
Affiliated research theme or topic:
Interacting complexities
Publication info: Azucena Castro. 2021. “Thinking with Toxic Plants ‒ Unruly Herbaria, Nuclear Imagination and Eco-Materialism in the Art-book The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness.” In Compost Reader I, Institute for Postnatural Studies (eds). Madrid: Cthulhu Books, Vol. 1
