Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene

What is the Panic Encyclopedia? It is not an alphabetic listing of empirical facts about the modern condition, but a post-alphabetic description of the actual disappearance of facts into the flash of thermonuclear "events" in the postmodern situation.
From panic art, panic astronomy, panic babies and panic shopping malls to panic sex, panic fashion, panic U.S.A. and panic advertising, this is the (panic) reader's guide to thefin-de-millenium.
The Panic Encyclopedia begins with the fateful discovery in contemporary physics that ninety percent of the natural universe is missing matter, just disappeared and no one knows where it is gone (physicists most of all). Now, with the triumph of science and technology as the real language of power in postmodern culture, the Panic Encyclopedia argues that ninety percent of contemporary society is also missing matter, just vanished and that no one knows where it is gone (sociologists most of all).