Blue Velvet
Re-dressing New Orleans in Katrina's wake
By David Theo Goldberg & Stefka Hristova
Design by Erik Loyer
Editors' Introduction
This is not the first appearance of Hurricane Katrina in the databases that underwrite Vectors. For the past two years, we at the journal have returned more than once to Katrina and to the cityscapes of New Orleans. We are intent both on keeping the city and its ongoing struggles in scholarly view and on exploring the possibilities for multimodal expression to capture the complex histories interlaced in what our government would have us believe was simply an act of nature. "Blue Velvet: Re-dressing New Orleans in Katrina's Wake" represents our most sophisticated exploration of this terrain. Combining sound, text, photography, video, and several maps, the piece sculpts an evocative and poignant landscape that nonetheless refuses all registers of nostalgia, insisting as it does that we locate Katrina and the Crescent City among multiple trajectories of policy, memory, and representation.
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