Create Discontinuity

Create Impermanence

Create Interruption

Create Surprise

Disturb

End As Stories

Fail

Fall Apart On Their Own

Go Wrong In People

Interrupt

Leave A Mark

Leave A Scar

Need A Lawyer

Need A Witness

Only Happen Once You're Older

Redirect

Refuse Invisibility

Refuse To Stay Background

Reward Discontinuity

Reward Urgency

Separate Eras

Violate Expectations

accident

motorcycle

dad joke

amputation

factory

one-liner

intention

oxymoron

phobia

bastard

comeback

medicine

trivia

is a nonsense term --- in a world without purposes the word 'accident' carries no meaning.

Purpose and accident, death and life: 'Once you know that there are no purposes, you also know that there is no accident, for it is only beside a world of purposes that the word `accident' has meaning. Let us beware of saying that death is opposed to life. The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.' (NW V. ii. 146, GS 168... (nietzsche)

meaning

nonsense

purpose of existence

purposelessness

is, along with error, the most persistent principle in the universe.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. (Frank Herbert)

is an impossibility (and a false problem) because existence has always proceeded via the assimilation of random events, rendering them rational.

Like understanding, critique will have to be pursued at all levels, and naturally, we will not be able to content ourselves, for the refutation of a doctrine, with reconnecting it to some accidental event in the author's life: it means beyond that, and there is no pure accident in existence or in coexistence, since both assimilate random events and make them rational. (Merleau-Ponty 'what is phenomenology' : 66)

is an inevitable occurrence arising out of immutable natural laws.

An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.

is an invitation to the promotion of the administration of civil fear, with guarantees, comprehensive insurance, inspection, and surveillance replacing the concept of security.

Before any formulation of 'political catastrophe theory,' the apocalyptic revelation of the public accident implicitly promotes the administration of civil fear, and thus indirectly the massive, conspicuous consumption of substitutes for and other fallout from the concept of security: guarantees, comprehensive insurance, inspection, surveillance in a word, the principle of conservation. (virilio 1993 : 213)

is baked into mechanical invention. When the railroad was invented, so was derailment.

When the railroad was invented, so was derailment. Then there were people like me who said right away that they didn't care if trains were great and went faster than stagecoaches. What was more important was that they not derail, that the accident specific to the train not prevent its development.' (virilio in interview with jerome sans

is design and design is accident in a cloud of unknowing.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing. (T. S. Eliot)

is given increasing primacy in political and economic discourse. The 'enemy' is being replaced by the 'ever present threat' in national security discourse.

If this is so, the significance of the nationwide blackout in France on Tuesday, December 19,1978,2 goes far beyond that of a simple electrical outage resulting from a higher than normal demand, and the press emphasis on the virtues of nuclear energy would be more than a manipulation of public opinion (in order to speed up nuclear power plant construction). Their function would be above all to invert the public's relation to the accident by giving the accident primacy in political and economic discourse. In other words, to provide an absolute energetic foundation for the ideological content of the doctrine of national security, which is in the process of replacing oldstyle national defense based on the political determination of a declared enemy with the indeterminacy of ever present threat and associated domestic risks: poverty, unemployment, famine, and so forth. (virilio 1993 : 213)

accident, n.All

accident