The Endured Dimension

A disaster cannot be appreciated as a social fact for it defeats the social. It is the emergence of an “outside” (Blanchot), an “externality” (Levinas), which resists to the positive logic of explanation and prompts us to think not about acting but about enduring. The ever singular experience of disaster generates a “de-cept”, i.e. the renunciation of the abstraction and of the generalization of the concept. But if a disaster cannot be fully enunciated, at least can it be remembered and rescripted, especially through the research of artistic forms going along increasing scarcity.