Beschreibung:
This book brings together a distinguished, interdisciplinary group of scholars who offer a set of frameworks and a critical language for examining conventional understandings of catastrophe and the catastrophic. Framed around the ideas of Agamben, Kant and Benjamin, the volume demonstrates how the question of 'catastrophic time' is in fact a question about something much more than the frequency of disasters in our so-called 'Age of Catastrophe'.
When is catastrophe?: an introduction, Christopher Dole, Robert Hayashi, Andrew Poe, Austin Sarat and Boris Wolfson; Catastrophe¿s apocalypse, Joseph Masco; Law and community in Fritz Lang¿s M., BBC¿s Luther: permanent catastrophe?, Elizabeth Stewart; Photographs of catastrophe and the representation of vulnerable humanity, Carolyn J. Dean; Catastrophe and human order: from political theology to political physiology, David W. Bates; Disaster, ruin, and permanent catastrophe, Lewis R. Gordon; Index.