On the Occasion of Your Catastrophe
This idea struck me too but I couldn’t find the words to describe it. As usual Tim Burke obliges:
The devastatingly painful stories of individual loss that serve as our collective route into this disaster, that allow us to relate its enormity to our everyday lives, are distinctively modern, a mark of our age. That makes us feel as if catastrophe affects us more, worse, and in a way it does. Not because we build more, or build in the wrong places, or have a flawed relationship to our environment. It affects us more in the 21st Century because of a change in meaning, in sentiment, in consciousness, in the infrastructure of human subjectivity.
Mark Waters marked time at 2:07 pm on January 7th, 2005 .
