e-flux Journal #126

<p>It’s unclear how many people still alive today can remember feeling the strange, warm rains that fell over the riverside city of Pripyat on the Ukraine-Belarus border in late April 1986. Pripyat was built in 1970 to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, dedicated to harnessing the <em>mirnyy atom</em> (“peaceful atom”) for the Soviet Union. For the past thirty-six years, Pripyat and a surrounding exclusion zone of inconsistent bounds bridging swaths of today’s Ukraine, Belarus, and a bit of Russia have been off limits to most human beings. In this issue of <em>e-flux journal</em>, Svitlana Matviyenko disagrees with Paul Virilio when he says that the Chernobyl disaster was “the original accident” of war and peace converging in technological “shipwreck modernity.” For Matviyenko, a Ukrainian scholar of cyberwar and nuclear colonialism, the full and non-accidental activation of the same nuclear-plant-turned-weapon happened this year, just a month ago…</p> <p><strong>Editorial</strong><br /> Editors</p> <p><strong>Nuclear Cyberwar: From Energy Colonialism to Energy Terrorism</strong><br /> Svitlana Matviyenko</p> <p><strong>Putin: Restoration of Destruction</strong><br /> Boris Groys in conversation with Liza Lazerson</p> <p><strong>The West at War: On the Self-Enclosure of the Liberal Mind</strong><br /> Boris Buden</p> <p><strong>Pasolini and the Queer Revolution in Beirut<br /> </strong>Raed Rafei</p> <p><strong>Personal Entropy</strong><br /> Gregor Mobius</p> <p><strong>The Petrified, Part 2</strong><br /> Tyler Coburn</p> <p><strong>Plastic Media</strong><br /> Heather Davis</p>