images of the not unforeseeable

In Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, Derrida argues that “September 11” is not an event (in the sense that Heidegger uses the term) because, in part, it was not unforeseeable. Of course, there is the obvious case of the attacks on the World Trade Center in the early 1990s, but Copyranter shows a few images that reveal our cultural obsession with the destruction of the towers (click on the image to see it enlarged).

FEMA World Trade Center

Steel Standing

My favorite, The Cookie Monster eating the WTC:

WTC Cookie Monster

An ad for Maker’s Mark, with wax on the buildings that appears more like blood (this one is probably less intentional than the others in regards connoting destruction):

WTC Makers Mark

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One Response to images of the not unforeseeable

  1. Jacob says:

    Fascinating images, Michael. I have not seen these elsewhere. Keep up the great research!

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