A review by aesopsdaddy
The Chernobyl Herbarium: Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness by Michael Marder

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.