Syllabus
1. Intro.2. April 26, 1986, 1:23AM
3. Voices from Chernobyl: oral histories of the disaster4. The two clashing worlds of 1986 Pripyat5. Gestalt, Technology, Total Mobilization6. Dialectics of Enlightenment7. Anxiety, Fear and Nostalgia. A Phenomenology of Moods
8. Commodifying the disaster: HBO's TV series and the mediality of radiation9. Simulations and simulacra. Mediated reality of today.
10. The End of History and the End of the Philosophy of History11. Is History Coming Back?12. Concluding Discussion.
Annotation
Over the course of 12 weeks, we will together be developing an interpretation of the Chernobyl disaster against the backdrop of 20th and 21st century cultural and societal developments. Using philosophy as a tool and point of view, we will be attempting a "thick description" of the phenomenon, at first starting in the epicentre of the atomic power plant, and gradually working our way outward and enveloping more broader contexts in the radioactive shroud of the fallout.
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