Where is the “city of comrades” we are supposed to see after disaster? Where are Rebecca Solnit’s “disaster communities”? Such utopias exist, but are forged in the afterglow of disaster only where community, mutualism and self-help already exist, and where the people are not already set in deadly hate, one against the other. What happens, the sociologist Kai Erikson asks, when the acute disaster comes crashing into lives already rendered fragile by multiple chronic disasters? Things, and people, fall apart.
Erikson describes, in the wake of disaster, a “psychological concussion”, an emotional flattening, a “dulled silence”, and a survivalist retreat to the periphery of life. Wherein the survivor is left with what disaster recovery expert Lucy Easthope calls by the Welsh word, hiraeth: longing for a place to which there is no return. Very much like growing up.
Richard Seymour, https://www.patreon.com/posts/curtain-rose-and-93159896
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