THEORY INSTRUCTION: The Measure of Limit

Our Theory instruction is to find the "excrescence" in our disaster.  The figure which we will create in part II is the thing in our disasters which expresses itself at its limit.  For example, the figure of my disaster at its point of excrescence is cancerous cells metastasizing--the process itself of metastasis is the "substance" of excrescence in an object form before it destructs the host (social environment) that gives it life.

A cancerous cell metastasizing is the pattern of cancer as disaster.  Cancer "speaks," as such through its metastatic excrescence--which is also its sign.  A cell becomes cancerous when its internal "suicide program" (apoptosis) stops functioning and the cell proliferates without any pre-programmed function.  There is no one source that is the trigger for somebody developing cancer, but scientists suggest that cancer is caused by series of factors, which include lifestyle and environmental factors (tobacco use, diet, exposure to UV radiation, exposure to carcinogens) (NCI).  In some cases, "having an inherited gene alteration does not always mean that the person will develop cancer; it only means that the chance of getting cancer is increased" (NCI).