Sep 9, 2020
Impact events can be defined as historical occurrences that are perceived to spectacularly shatter the material and symbolic worlds we inhabit. Impact also denotes the duration of the after-effects in the material culture and collective consciousness. [...] From the perspective of our normal frames and modes of comprehension, impact events appear as seismic historical occurrences that are nearly always defined by extreme forms of violence that turn our known worlds upside down. The emphasis is here on the violent overturning of the social, cultural, and -- in the case of extreme trauma -- symbolic frames and the destruction of the material world in which we constitute meaning as social beings that inhabit shared social worlds.
Anne Fuchs