Friday June 14, 2013
A present overwhelmed by the not-always-intended effects of the technological world we’d created. — <p>Andrew Blum, ‘<a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/06/new-aesthetic-james-bridle-drones_slideshow_item4_5" title="Children of the Drone" target="_blank">Children of the Drone</a>’ (2013)</p> <p>Very similar to this:</p> <blockquote> <p>Late modernity is a period of social change prompted by the need to cope with the risks generated by modernity itself.</p> <p>Beck and Beck-Gernsheim, <em>Individualization</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Or in this case, the postnormal is a period of social re-equilibration instigated by the chaotic risks posed by the postmodern.</p> <p>We are catching with postnormal hands what the machinery of control pitched in the postmodern, like drones.</p> <p>When they start flinging postnormal inventions at us — like autonomous battle robots, or semi-intelligent buildings grown from nano slime, or genetically engineered yogurt yeasts that make us more nationalistic — then we will be all the way into the postnormal, and past the fringes where we are today.</p> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://stoweboyd.com/" target="_blank">stoweboyd</a>)</p>