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008 090403s2009 cou b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009014136
020 $a9781594515385 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a1594515387 (hardcover : alk. paper)
024 $a40017137349
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn181142823
035 $a(OCoLC)181142823
035 $a(NNC)7414453
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050 00 $aD24$b.G754 2009
082 00 $a303.48/5$222
082 4 $a903
100 1 $aGordon, Jane Anna,$d1976-
245 10 $aOf divine warning :$breading disaster in the modern age /$cJane Anna Gordon and Lewis R. Gordon.
260 $aBoulder, CO :$bParadigm Publishers,$cc2009.
300 $ax, 166 p. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aThe radical imagination series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tSigns -- $g2.$tWarnings -- $g3.$tCreatures -- $g4.$tMute -- $g5.$tRuin -- $g6.$tDawn.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aDisasters.
650 0 $aDisasters in literature.
700 1 $aGordon, Lewis R.$q(Lewis Ricardo),$d1962-
830 0 $aRadical imagination series.
852 00 $bglx$hD24$i.G754 2009