The shattered Proustian memory in a poignant footage

Antonio Picariello

The catastrophe theory, developed by  René Thom during the 1960s and first emerged into the Italian academic practice in the 1970s, held out hope and illusion presenting the scientific thought as a solution to apply to all unruly phenomena, including earthquakes. Later, however, the catastrophes that shattered first the Italian regions of Irpinia, Molise and more recently those of Abruzzo and Emilia, proved that catastrophes are not only a problem regarding the structure, but a quality related to human consciousness.        […]

For art historians L’Aquila represents an Italian tragedy

On 5 May 2013, one thousand art historians met in L’Aquila in order to claim a “civil reconstruction” of the European artistic heritage for the martyr city. The following is the final document, which was also handed in to Mr. Bray, Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage, who attended the event. 

“The art historian who today, 5 May 2013, have gathered in L’Aquila, aim to galvanise the institutions as well as the Italian citizens into taking action. We want to remind that the tragedy of such a monumental built-up centre is beyond compare and it is still in disrepair, four years later the quake that destroyed it and four years later the political choices that sentenced […]

To know more about it (source: Wikipedia)

A catastrophe or disaster is an event (or a series of events) causing either unrecoverable or recoverable damages, requiring years to repair. Catastrophes may be categorized into:

• Natural disasters
  • Geological
    • Earthquakes
    • Lahar
    • Landslides
    • Avalanches
    • Volcanic Eruptions
• Hydrological

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