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BellingenNSWMar 13, 2025

"An ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility."

"A technocratic approach can also be self-defeating in policy terms. Render the future too concrete and it becomes harder to think about far-reaching structural change. In the language of the anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, an ethics of probability tends to crowd out an ethics of possibility. Moreover, the precision of targets can make failures more glaring, as goals are missed and deadlines pass.This weakens commitment in adversity – a point made by sympathetic critics of a climate agenda centred on “hitting the carbon numbers”. Arguably one of the preconditions of radical politics is an element of imprecision. The anticolonial thinker and activist Frantz Fanon once warned of the “curious cult of detail” that could afflict the scientific mindset in politics, causing its bearer to lose sight of the bigger picture: “Thus, if a local defeat is inflicted, he may well be drawn into doubt, and from thence to despair.”" Jonathan White
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-new-right-centre-left-technocratic
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How Trump and the new right came to ‘own’ the future – while apparently exploiting the past

The centre left’s failure has left a vacuum that’s been filled by those offering hope, rather than a technocratic status quo, says the LSE’s Jonathan White

The Guardian
James Davis NicollNov 30, 2022

November 2022 in Review

A quick breakdown of the demographics of the authors I read in November 2022, along with a cursory examination of the dominant political systems used.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/november-2022-in-review

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November 2022 in Review

November 202222 works reviewed. 11.5 by women (52%), 10.5 by men (48%), 0 by a non-binary author (0%), 0 by authors whose gender is unknown (0%), and 10 by POC (45%) Year to Date238 works reviewed. 131 by women (55%), 100 by men (42%), 7 by a non-binary author (3%), 0 by authors whose genders are unknown (0%), and 93 by POC (39%). Grand Total to Date2246 works reviewed. 1255 by women (56%), 940 by men (42%), 33 by non-binary authors (1%), 18 by authors whose gender is unknown (1%), and 667.75 by POC (30%). Government Types OctoberTotal 22, Not Applicable 3 (14%), Unclear 0 (0%), Anarchy 0 (0%), Pure democracy 1 (5%), Representative democracy 5 (23%), Oligarchy 11 (50%), Autocracy 2 (9%).Government Type 2022 TDTotal 238, Not Applicable 38 (16%), Unclear 17 (8%), Anarchy 5 (2%), Pure democracy 2 (0.5%), Representative democracy 65 (28%), Oligarchy 89 (36%), Autocracy 22 (9%).

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