Petrified ruin: Chernobyl, Pripyat and the death of the city

摘要: This paper offers a reading of urban ruin through personal experience: visit I made to the Chernobyl site in October 2007—first destroyed reactor and then ruined buildings Pripyat, using my own photographs as documents. The situates this experience context wider representations technological city. Pripyat may not be city, let alone metropolis, but its scale is unique post‐war period. In West, city usually only presents itself fictive representations: that is, literature film flesh, so speak. Experiencing ruins invite thoughts about value, or otherwise, industrial ruin; unprecedented invites an altogether different meditation on whole perhaps, too, civilisation itself.