BLOG: Modernity without its clothes: the pandemic crisis shines a light on futilities of control | Andy Stirling
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"What is now becoming devastatingly undermined is the general credibility of any confident performance of predictive control...
What the pandemic shows is that in the wider, long-run ‘real world’ of human affairs, *control does not exist*."
"Just as a hammer can condition its holder to see every problem as a nail, so unfolding Modernities around the world are ironically enslaved by their perennial aspirations to control."
"Control has also not only failed to live up to expectations, but yielded so many perverse kinds of backlash as to often be seriously counterproductive. So what is distinctive about this global pandemic is not its novelty, but its intensity."
"Whatever futures may struggle into being, the present pandemic suggests these will likely turn out better if shaped in opposite ways to this failing reflex of control."
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