9/11 was significant to my own thought journey, as I mention in various presentations I give, in quite different contexts. It turned nagging doubts about “western rationality” in my knowledge-modelling working life-to-date, into something globally real, awful, awe-full and urgent. A kick in the pants to actively research what was already making me uneasy. 23 years later I’m still at it.
Each year a number of remembrance pieces come up:
The Falling Man
The story of Richard Drew’s photo of Jonathan Briley,
By Tom Junod in Esquire
and
The Real Heroes are Dead
The story of Rick Rescola and Susan Greer,
By James B Stewart in The New Yorker
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