Liquid modernity? (2014)

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

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.