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the nineteenth-century French thinker Ernest Renan, knew, in addition to the usual Greek and Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic (Syriac), and Arabic. In his attack on Averroes, he expressed the famous idea that logic excludes—by definition—nuances, and since truth resides exclusively in the nuances, it is “a useless instrument for finding Truth in the moral and political sciences.”
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Problematizations of unemployment do not just happen inside policy-makers' and other experts' heads. Rather, we need to see problematization in terms of a heterogeneous and plural milieu which combines humans and non-human artefacts; we need to understand governmental thought as an eminently practical activity which is not possible without the existence of all manner of technologies of inscription, description, recording, and representation.
Unemployment and Government
William Walters
At every stage in our understanding of such risks, the mobilization of scientific knowledge is central to their description and assessment. This elevates the expertise and status of the knowledge professions to a prime political position in the discourse of risk, leaving little or no room for the layperson. The result is a growing tension between those with and those without knowledge.
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
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