[HN Gopher] Liquid modernity? (2014)
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       Liquid modernity? (2014)
        
       Author : penetralium
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2023-02-05 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | penetralium wrote:
       | From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvfLpptUIh4
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       |  _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._
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       | A pdf of the book:
       | https://giuseppecapograssi.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/bauma...
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       | 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
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       | It also matches reasonably well to the concept of nebulosity and
       | the ways it complicates modernity from David Chapman:
       | https://meaningness.com/nebulosity
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       | Importance of "container" takes on more importance in our ideal
       | conceptions with liquid.
        
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