Necessity Of Friction
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error control systems
Frictionless Economy
Frictionless Society
Frustrated Plans
Gene I. Rochlin
Georg SeRensen
George Stubbs
Helga Nowotny
Hubert L. Dreyfus
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Jean Bedel Bokassa
Jiang Kaishek
Joanne Finkelstein
John Heskett
Jon Elster
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Large Scale Technical Systems
Late Twentieth Century Economics
Market Clearing Wage
Meiji Elites
Meiji Modernizers
Nordal Erman
organizational resistance
Ottar Brox
Proficient Performer
rationality theory
resistance to perfect rationality in society
Short Term Predictions
Sigrid CombChen
social systems analysis
Stuart E. Dreyfus
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- ISBN 9780813334349
- Weight: 610g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Friction is what keeps us from realizing our goals. It is what compromises all of our plans, sometimes making them unrecognizable. It defies our wish for perfection and constantly surprises us with new elements of resistance. It constitutes the divide between dream and reality.But friction is also what gets us moving, a necessary incentive to achieve progress. Nothing can start if it cannot push off something else. By blocking or delaying the easy solution, friction makes for a richer, more varied world. If it stops schemes from being completely fulfilled, it also stops them form going totally awry.To the modernist project, with its one-sided rationalist pretensions, friction is unambiguously bad?and so it is being disposed of at an increasing speed. The currency markets are one example, cyberspace another. This means less and less time to pause and rethink, while the vulnerability of societies is aggravated. In The Necessity of Friction, scholars tackle this topical and important concept. A number of scientific fields are engaged: physics, philosophy, economics, architecture, organizational theory, artificial intelligence, and others. Together, these contributions form the first modern-day attempt at analyzing the intriguing yet elusive subject of friction as metaphor.
Nordal Åkerman is former professor of history and national security at Lund University.
