@KaiHeron maybe. but who's using polycrisis to say 'we'll never understand, why bother'?
seems more generously β 'the causal understanding we had is changing, given the interplay of a critical set of tensions, let's inquire into how, without assuming we know how it ends'
@KaiHeron you don't have to like Tooze but that's a bad faith read. he explicitly argues against appeals to complexity that say 'it's beyond our the capacity to understand.'
and he's making a strategic appeal to particular central bank moves atm, not an epistemological claim.
@tobias_revell things your abstractions never anticipated. you have new properties and interactions β say the material used for the pulley has a certain amount of friction, or it wears out rapidly, etc.
concretization instantiates abstractions, but in doing so makes them /less/ determinate.
@tobias_revell the usual account of design would say that as you make it more concrete, i.e. as you make an actual 'thing', it becomes more determinate.
but Simondon says no, the opposite. the more you concretize a design, the more indeterminate it becomes. because now you have to account for
@Klingebeil the links between conspiracy culture and innovation speak seem promising - like how querdenken, a 'think different' business buzzword in the 2000s, became the German Q's rallying cry
https://t.co/jQV2tUudup