A hole punched in the universe - implicitly Important, yet deprived of representation - the enduring aesthetic of terrorist-act-as-spectacle bounced from television set to television set.
As media image, decontextualised and diesmbedded, the implied “thingness” of the attacks was unshackled from geographical space, leaving ‘September 11’ to subsist as a signifier of pure time. A moment set apart from the broader flows of history; frozen, as if in amber.
