157 definitions
The Accident (n.) is an invitation to the promotion of the administration of civil fear, with guarantees, comprehensive insurance, inspection, and surveillance replacing the concept of security.
The Accident (n.) is baked into mechanical invention. When the railroad was invented, so was derailment.
The Accident (n.) is given increasing primacy in political and economic discourse. The 'enemy' is being replaced by the 'ever present threat' in national security discourse.
The Accident (n.) is, in modernity, a spectacularly reversed political tool... no longer hidden away as failure, but instead is bandied about and made productive, psychologically speaking.
The Accident (n.) is inherent in the steam engine. Oceangoing vessels invented the ship-wreck. Trains invented the rail catastrophe. Fire the forest fire.
The Accident (n.) is invented at the moment of scientific discovery. So perhaps we could reverse the direction of research and instead directly invent the accident in order to discover the substance.
The Accident (n.) is perhaps not, despite philosophical axiom, relative and contingent. By the same token, substance is likely not absolute and necessary.
The Accident (n.) is programmed into the product from the moment of its production or implementation.
The Accident (n.) is responsible for transforming the social relationship between civilians and servicemen such that, through constant drills and simulations on mini and macro-scales has brought into being a new society organized entirely around the requirement to react to catastrophe with the greatest possible speed.
The Accident (n.) is sometimes (as in the case of the challenger space shuttle) not in the event, but in the very fact that the event manages to get off the ground in the first place.
The Accident (n.) is invented alongside the invention. The train wreck is invented alongside the train. Thus, it follows that a new direction of research could work to directly invent the accident in order to find 'the substance'.
The Accident (n.) is understood wrongheadedly as something 'unexpected' or 'surprising'. On the contrary, any machines 'failure' is programmed into the product from the moment of its production or implementation.
The Accident (n.) is wrongheadedly seen as relative and contingent while the substance is taken to be absolute and necessary.
Architecture (n.) is an instrument of measure/a sum total of knowledge that organizes time and space.
Art (n.) used to be confined to painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art.. All we have to do to enter the realm of art is to take a car and look out the window.
The Body (n.) is a planet, a unique center around which objects gravitate, but in cyberspace and through virtual technologies, it is undergoing an increasing derealization.
Catastrophe (n.) is only terrifying for civilians. For the military it is simply an opportunity to justify an art of warfare.
Catastrophe (n.) is marked today by the image loop, as though only repetition could remedy the inexplicable.
Chronopolitics (n.) is a war of time beyond that of territorial space, the question of who determines the rhythm, duration, sequencing, and synchronization.
The City (n.) is the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.