The Rewriting Of The Disaster

Thoughts on independent media, new media and the work of mourning

By Paul Chan

Let me begin with a confession: I feel weak. This is not surprising, knowing what I experienced, and what others experienced with us New Yorkers some time ago: a time that feels both terribly intimate and infinitely distant. It is hard to describe. It is also a unique quality of the disaster, which I will return to later.