N-keywords

Federation through Keywords

“I cannot understand how anyone can make use of the frameworks of reference developed in the eighteenth and nineteenth century in order to understand the transformation into the post-traditional cosmopolitan world we live in today.”
(Ulrich Beck, The Risk Society and Beyond, 2000)

Imagine us in “the risk society”—impregnated with existential risks we don’t know how to handle; we shall not move beyond the risk society—as long as we look at those problems through the same concepts we used when we created them.