[HN Gopher] Liquid modernity? (2014) ___________________________________________________________________ Liquid modernity? (2014) Author : penetralium Score : 16 points Date : 2023-02-05 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (understandingsociety.blogspot.com) (TXT) w3m dump (understandingsociety.blogspot.com) | penetralium wrote: | From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvfLpptUIh4 | | _The task is to develop an art of living permanently with | uncertainty--living in a combination of ignorance and impotence. | Ignorance means we don 't know what the situation is. Impotence | means that even if we did, we wouldn't have the tools to handle | it._ | | A pdf of the book: | https://giuseppecapograssi.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/bauma... | | Profile article on Bauman: | https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/05/society | thadk wrote: | This concept is obviously intended for a broader writ but I love | the way this plays with the yesterday-surfaced SICP/Sussman | video's spontaneous crisis of the late 1990s which changed the | way computer engineering needed to be taught: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657535 | | It also matches reasonably well to the concept of nebulosity and | the ways it complicates modernity from David Chapman: | https://meaningness.com/nebulosity | | Importance of "container" takes on more importance in our ideal | conceptions with liquid. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-02-05 23:00 UTC)