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Given the highly technical and invisible nature of these risks, the politics of risk intrinsically emerge as a politics of knowledge, typically contested through expertise and counterexpertise.
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
What a society chooses to measure is always tied into that society's shared narrative about the way the world works and what is valuable within it. Looking around at how things are measured and quantified can reveal a society's dominant and often implicit (or unarticulated) meta-theories.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
The longing to become a source of events affects each man like a mental disorder or a desired malediction. Society—an inferno of saviors! What Diogenes was looking for with his lantern was an indifferent man. . . .
A Short History of Decay
E. M. Cioran
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