Chernobyl's Hauntology

Exploring Chernobyl's strange place in the western mind

For reasons I shall not dwell on here, Chernobyl and its legend and mythology have occupied my mind again of late. In the spring and summer of 2022, there were news headlines emerging in the West that the Russian army had captured Chernobyl. Reports even emerged that ‘‘the sarcophagus’’ which entombs the exploded reactor was actually being shelled. Rega…