Reviews

The Chernobyl Herbarium by Michael Marder, Anaïs Tondeur

margarete's review against another edition

5.0

"The Chernobyl disaster is a mugwort disaster—not, to be sure, of the mugwort itself, but of our relation to it and, through it, to vegetal nature as, at once, a part and a condensed representation of nature as a whole."

wow!!!! loved this, really lovely introduction to Marder's work, which so aligns with my own interests. accessible, interesting philosophy about the bodymind and the vegetal kingdom <3333

nateskrage's review

reflective fast-paced

2.5

sugarwearegoingdown's review

informative tense medium-paced

3.75

federicareadsbooks's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

aesopsdaddy's review against another edition

4.0

Quite a challenging read, academically rigorous, but fascinating in how the author and artist (in their philosophy-art collaboration of literary ‘fragments’ and corresponding photograms of radioactive plants) craft a herbarium that considers Chernobyl, the exploded consciousness it caused, and how the event requires us to be more like plants in response to the analogous effects of climate change we face.