This book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary
society and its impact on the construction of social and political
life. The theory is premised upon what the authors call "the sign
continuum," where disaster spreads across society through efforts
to evade social responsibility for its causes and consequences.
Phenomena generated by such efforts include the social
manifestation of monstrosity (disastrous people and other forms of
living things) and an emerging antipolitics in an effort to assert
rule and order. A crucial development is the attack on speech, a
fundamental feature of political life, as manifested by the
increased expectations of categories of people whose containment
calls for shunning and silence. The book closes with an exploration
of the significance of the mythic motif of eliminating monsters
before dawn and its collapse in nihilistic times, where such
conflicts now continue beyond dawn.
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