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Index
Cover Page
Contents
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Translator’s Note
Preface
Introduction: The Immortality of Industrial Society and the Contents of this Book
Part I: Dead Ends
1 Barbarism Modernized: The Eugenic Age
The technology of creation: humans and nature off the drawing board?
Giving progress the benefit of the doubt: the inequality of the burdens of proof
Social consequences: will genetic techniques replace social policies?
The human-genetic ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’
The dream-child mentality: the gentle compulsion to have a perfect child
2 The Naturalistic Misunderstanding of the Green Movement: Environmental Critique as Social Critique
Nature: social memory as utopia
The muteness of destruction and the sources of protest
The death-reflex of normality
The German ‘anxiety’ miracle
3 Industrial Fatalism: Organized Irresponsibility
The politics of aporia
The Kafkaesque experience of protest
Organized irresponsibility
Positive, negative and cynical fatalism
How industrialism annuls its own premises
Part II: Antidotes
4 The Self-refutation of Bureaucracy: The Victory of Industrialism over Itself
The concealed self-politicization of hazards in hazard administration
Critique of bureaucracy: hazard administration as a hazard to the administration
The conditions rehearse the uprising: annihilation hazards as an independent revolution
Contradictions of the security state: hazard as a refutation of the technically oriented conception of safety
5 Implementation as Abolition of Technocracy: The Logic of Relativistic Science
The reign of the refuted: technocracy and the ‘state of the art’ principle
The heightened version of scientific knowledge: truth, doubt, self-limitation
The world as a laboratory, or the end of experimental technology
The illogic of discovery
6 The ‘Poisoned Cake’: Capital and Labour in Risk Society
Relations of production and relations of definition
Unattributability as a system: unpolluted because polluted
The variability of the relations of definition
Capital against capital: the distributional dynamics of those who win and those who lose by risk
Labour society as risk society: the destiny of workers ‘at third hand’
Regional strife: danger as internal and international conflict
7 Conflicts over Progress: The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy
Environment as social habitus: interim assessment
The politics of hazard: the principle of the indivisibility of health and life
On the road to an authoritarian technocracy
Ruses of powerlessness: the utopia of a responsible modernity
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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