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The Cunning of Uncertainty
Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to clear the mists and predict ahead. But the future is inherently uncertain - and the mist that shrouds our path an inherent part of our journey. The burning question is whether our societies can face up to uncertainty, learn to embrace it and whether we can open up to a constantly evolving future. In this new book, Helga Nowotny shows how research can thrive at the cusp of uncertainty. Science, she argues, can eventually transform uncertainty into certainty, but into certainty which remains always provisional. Uncertainty is never completely static. It is constantly evolving. It encompasses geological time scales and, at the level of human experience, split-second changes as cells divide. Life and death decisions are taken in the blink of the eye, while human interactions with the natural environment may reveal their impact over millennia. Uncertainty is cunning. It appears at unexpected moments, it shuns the straight line, takes the oblique route and sometimes the unexpected short-cut. As we acknowledge the cunning of uncertainty, its threats retreat. We accept that any scientific inquiry must produce results that are provisional and uncertain. This message is vital for politicians and policy-makers: do not be tempted by small, short-term, controllable gains to the exclusion of uncertain, high-gain opportunities. Wide-ranging in its use of examples and enriched by the author’s experience as President of the European Research Council, one of the world’s leading funding organisations for fundamental research. The Cunning of Uncertainty is a must-read for students and scholars of all disciplines, politicians, policy-makers and anyone concerned with the fundamental role of knowledge and science in our societies today.
A Fortune-Teller Told Me
Warned by a Hong Kong fortune-teller not to risk flying for a whole year, Tiziano Terzani — a vastly experienced Asia correspondent — took what he called “the first step into an unknown world. . . . It turned out to be one of the most extraordinary years I have ever spent: I was marked for death, and instead I was reborn.” Traveling by foot, boat, bus, car, and train, he visited Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Geography expanded under his feet. He consulted soothsayers, sorcerers, and shamans and received much advice — some wise, some otherwise — about his future. With time to think, he learned to understand, respect, and fear for older ways of life and beliefs now threatened by the crasser forms of Western modernity. He rediscovered a place he had been reporting on for decades. And it reinvigorated him. The result is an immensely engaging, insightful, and idiosyncratic journey, filled with unexpected delights and strange encounters. A bestseller and major prizewinner in Italy, A Fortune-Teller Told Me is a powerful warning against the new missionaries of materialism.
Le fragole di Londra
Author: Romeo Farinella
language: it
Publisher: Mimesis
Release Date: 2025-02-21T00:00:00+01:00
Le relazioni tra città e disuguaglianze vanno inquadrate in una riflessione sui temi posti dai cambiamenti climatici in corso e dalla transizione ecologica. A queste relazioni fanno da sfondo le retoriche riferite ai processi di rigenerazione o di “fondazione” urbana generati dal modello neoliberista che si sta imponendo non solo nel mondo occidentale. La rigenerazione urbana destinata alle classi più ricche, nella logica della gentrificazione, e la privatizzazione o semi-privatizzazione dello spazio pubblico, la segregazione socioeconomica ed etnica dei gruppi vulnerabili e quella volontaria dell’élite, la sostenibilità come strumento di esclusione (eco-gentrificazione) e i processi di greenwashing ne rappresentano i caratteri più salienti. Tre tappe segnano questo percorso critico: la città industriale e la rottura dell’equilibrio uomo-ambiente; gli intrecci tra urbanizzazione, cambiamenti climatici e disuguaglianze; le retoriche eco-urbanistiche e il diritto alla città.