On March 11, 2021, we enter the tenth year of the ongoing planetary disaster caused by the triple meltdown of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. A catastrophe that continues to be urgent because of the widespread radioactive contamination and challenging owing to the durational nature of the invisible isotopes.

To mark this day, Sternberg Press is publishing the twelfth volume of the Critical Spatial Practices series, which focuses on “Don’t Follow the Wind,” the collaborative project situated in the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone. The book explores the long-term environmental crisis in the coastal Japanese region through this ongoing, inaccessible exhibition, which maintains traces of human presence amid the fallout of the March 2011 nuclear reactor meltdown that displaced entire towns. This volume includes new texts by feminist theoristSilvia Federici, art historians Noi Sawaragi and Sven Lütticken, and political philosopherJodi Dean that address the question: What can art do in a continuing catastrophe when destruction and contamination have made living impossible?… Lire la suite Don’t follow