12 September 2011

Upheaval

"Upheaval in disaster can be as immediate as political change, as intangible as ideological shift." (A Paradise Built In Hell, Rebecca Solnit, 2009; page 154) 
The Lisbon earthquake of 1755, for example, kicked off much of the anti-authoritarian thinking that underlined the Enlightenment thought of the time. 

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