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categories. The first represents the risks incured, the second represnts
the resources that are produced, the third reprents the pleasures that
can be taken from it and the fourth represents the impediments
created. When a catastrophe is envisaged according to the four
“symbols”, an ideogram is constructed: its meaning relative to a given
human milieu (that is to say its mesological meaning).

As a
RESOURCE

As a
RISK

As a
PLEASURE

CATASTROPHE

As an
IMPEDIMENT

Table 7.4. Ideogram of a catastrophe depicted according to the
medial categories (risk, pleasure, impediment, resource)

7.4.8. Example

By applying this analytical tool, it is possible to suggest a reading
of the case study analyzed above. We thus obtain, in a synthetic form,
the following ideogram:

RESOURCE

For artisans
and reconstruction

Unusual
and
humorous
stories

Earthquake
and
globalization

Eruption at Edo (1855)

For the victims

IMPEDIMENT

Table 7.5. An ideogram of the volcanic eruption in
Edo in 1855 (written version)