Tokyo

Proximity and distance in disaster representation

What we know about disasters, we know from the media. The medium forms the message, so media forms the disaster, what we think it is and - maybe - what it is like to be in it. While for millenia natural disasters remained engimatic for the very practical reason that...

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Flood Memorabilia

In Germany as well as in many other countries, images of extreme floods often found their way on postcards. Here is a selection of postcards. (click on the image to find the online source) 1909 1910 1914 1920 1920 1929 2002 undated postcard from Tokyo, Japan undated...

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