Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
A Letter From Sabu Kohso

Liaisons received a letter from our friend, Sabu Kohso. Expanding on the framework developed in his recent book, Radiation and Revolution – an examination of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster that illuminates the relationship between nuclear power, capitalism, and the nation-state – Sabu’s letter reflects on a handful of questions posed by our present: the relationship between pandemic and radiation, the significance of the recent US uprisings in a global context, and the heterogenetic silver lining that emerges with the prospect of American decomposition. Book of Catastrophe Radiation and Revolution is a project prompted by the Fukushima nuclear disaster that began in March 2011. Overwhelming manifestations of the catastrophe compelled an investigation into the ontopolitical status of nuclear power in Japan and the world, from the standpoint of people’s lives entrapped within its logic and their struggles against it. This… Read More...