Contents -- Introduction - Hazardous Future: Images and Perceptions of Disaster and the Assessment of Risk -- Part I: Disaster (and) Culture -- The Productivity of Catastrophes in Evolution and the Challenge of Manmade Catastrophes -- Catastrophe Culture -- Tragedy, the Neglected Origin of Catastrophe Theory -- (E)Spectating Disaster: A Cultural Condition -- Catastrophes, the Imaginary and Citizenship: The Production of the Other and the Singularity of Experience -- The Importance of Social Capital Facing the Unexpected (from Natural Hazards to Social Disasters): A Style of Thought -- Big Stories and Small Stories after a Traumatic Natural Disaster from a Psychotherapeutic Point of View -- In Search of the Lost oikos: Japan after the Earthquake of 11 March 2011 -- Part II: A Casuistry of Disaster -- The Specter of Chernobyl: An Ontology of Risk -- Living in a Landscape of Risk in Java/Indonesia -- Performance and the Deferral of the Catastrophe Narrative.Naoko Tanaka's Performance-Installation Die Scheinwerferin (2011) -- The Subjectification of Disaster in Video Art: Incidence of Catastrophe by Gary Hill -- Identifying a Genre: Televized Tragedy -- Screens of Fire: Surviving the End of the World -- Zombies and Citizens.The Ontopolitics of Disaster in Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend -- How Do We Measure Disaster? How Do We Ensure Security?.The 2011 Lorca Earthquake in the Media -- Hurricane Katrina: Contesting Singularity in Treme -- Flooded with Memories: Risk Cultures, the Big Flood of 1953 and the Visual Resonance of World War Two -- Authors -- Index of Names.