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horizons of risk
The ‘clash of risk cultures’, the collision of culturally different ‘risk realities’ (i.e. perceptions of risk), is developing into a fundamental problem of global politics in the twenty-first century....
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tunnel vision
Plans fail because of what we have called tunneling, the neglect of sources of uncertainty outside the plan itself. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan (2007/2010)
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3 histories, what future?
HKW conference on the Anthropocene — keynote talk of historian and post-colonial theorist Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago The Anthropocene Project An Opening Haus der Kulturen der Welt,...
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“It just takes guts.”
We cannot truly plan because we do not understand the future — but this is not necessarily bad news. We could plan while bearing in mind such limitations. It just takes guts. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The...
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decisions
…we live in a world that has to make decisions concerning its future under conditions of manufactured, self-inflicted insecurity. [T]he belief that modern society can control the dangers that it...
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