Archives by Tag 'earthquake'

Haiti: Locating the affirmative burden of responsibility

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Friday, January 22, 2010

Logic and emotion It was an earthquake. A really big one. Turns out the reaction and response reaches every corner of the globe. Perturbative, this event has challenged the dimensions of security, of rules sets, of money, of infrastructure, and of resources; and the world is challenged to provide strategic flows of security, aid, money, [...]

Haiti: If not (long) now, then when?

By Critt Jarvis - Last updated: Friday, January 15, 2010

Perturbating the order of civilization Beneath Nature’s ground, an earthquake in Haiti. One so devastating, it shocks Culture into chaos; local Governance has no assembly. With its Infrastructure crushed, there is no capacity for Commerce; and Fashion has no market. Doctors are on the way As is food and water. But who will administer the [...]