Chronicle of a well-prepared disaster
Disciplines
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By Guillaume Lachenal, in Somatosphere's Ebola fieldnotes, October 31, 2014. A French version of this piece was originally published in Libération on 18 September 2014. “It is useless to laboriously interpret disaster movies in terms of their relation to an ‘objective’ social crisis or even to an ‘objective’ phantasm of disaster,” wrote Jean Baudrillard in 1981. “It is in another sense that (…) it is the social itself that, in contemporary discourse, is organised along the lines of a disas...