Crisis naturales y textos de emergencia: Cómo leer el sismo del 19 de septiembre de 2017 en la Ciudad de México

This article argues that a large body of texts that spontaneously emerged in Mexico in the aftermath of the Mexico City earthquake of September 19, 2017, constitute a "genre of emergency" that allows one to read not only the seismic event itself but also the tensions and debates surrounding the political context in which it occurred. I propose analyzing the narratives that follow a natural disaster as part of a textual genre that subsequently moves to other spaces. In particular, I explore the most immediate readings that the event provoked and the way they made visible dynamics previously hidden under "normal" spatial configurations. I suggest that the physical collapse revealed a new visibility of urban space that simultaneously implied a new legibility of the political space that contains it.