Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Paul Virilio, Cordite, Diastase
15 Mar 2018
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The accident reveals the substance because what crops up is a sort of analysis, a techno-analysis of what is beneath any knowledge. It follows that fighting against the damage done by progress above all means uncovering the hidden truth of our successes in this accidental revelation of the incriminated substances. Video: union carbon disaster: india invisible killer, poison gas leak killing thousands of people, 2 years ago company had major concerns for the gas, warned of problems 3 months before deadly leak. And if we don"t think about them, why don"t we, when the procession of catastrophes is effectively endless, as there will always be another, and another, and another. Accidents and disasters are inevitable, as long we live there will always be catastrophe waiting to happen because disaster is unavoidable. Inherent aspect f how we presently go about developing the world. Progress cannot proceed without admitting the possibility of disasters. Accidents can be happy; accident of discovery.
