Joost van LoonThinkers

Agency is generally understood as synonymous with the ability to act according to one's will. That is, agency is the ability to act on the basis of consciously made decisions.

A Black box is a 'forgetting to question' which is less 'a trick played by the unconscious, but a simple pragmatic consequence of the costs (not just the financial ones of course) involved in excavating black boxes.

Interdisciplinarity is the idea of transgressing disciplinary boundaries and focusing on 'knowledge practices'.

Modernity is characterized by man's effort to control hazards by himself through systematic application of science and technology, most of all mathematics.

Probability is that which belongs to an entire series, not to an individual event.

Risk perception is social to the extent that the madness is no longer in cow brains, but in the nervous system of society.

Technology is not a thing, but a process or flow which includes matter, form, purpose and effect.