Beschreibung:
This book argues that catastrophe is a particular way of governing future events - such as terrorism, climate change or pandemics - which we cannot predict but which may strike suddenly, without warning, and cause irreversible damage.
1. Introduction 2. Securing Catastrophic Futures 3. Conjectures of Catastrophe: 'The Next Terrorist Attack' 4. Economies of Catastrophe 5. Imagining Catastrophes 6. Aesthetics of Catastrophe 7. Catastrophe, Exception, Event 8. Conclusion