Monsterology is the study of the monsters that turn up in an interregnum. My hunch is that the next hegemonic monster will be planetary in scale.
How the word moved
In January 2025 I made it one of the "majors" of Bhumics: reading Plato, Machiavelli, More, Hobbes and Rousseau as books that unleashed monsters, with Don Quixote as the monster-slayer. In March 2026 the monsters came back as the planetary-scale successors to the dying Rules-Based International Order.
In my words
"If you see a monster on the road, kill him."
from Bhumics, Part 1, 21 Jan 2025
Related
- Depends on Interregnum - monsters are the morbid symptoms of Gramsci's interregnum.
- Inherited from Gramsci - "Now is the time of monsters" is where I started.
- Related Affectology - the two were paired majors in the opening essay.
- Related Rules-Based International Order - I called the dying RBIO our monster.
Still open
I haven't spelled out a method for studying monsters beyond reading the speculative classics. Don Quixote would be disappointed.