The task is to develop an art of living permanently with uncertainty—living in a combination of ignorance and impotence. Ignorance means we don't know what the situation is. Impotence means that even if we did, we wouldn't have the tools to handle it.
This concept is obviously intended for a broader writ but I love the way this plays with the yesterday-surfaced SICP/Sussman video's spontaneous crisis of the late 1990s which changed the way computer engineering needed to be taught: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657535
It also matches reasonably well to the concept of nebulosity and the ways it complicates modernity from David Chapman: https://meaningness.com/nebulosity
Importance of "container" takes on more importance in our ideal conceptions with liquid.
The task is to develop an art of living permanently with uncertainty—living in a combination of ignorance and impotence. Ignorance means we don't know what the situation is. Impotence means that even if we did, we wouldn't have the tools to handle it.
A pdf of the book: https://giuseppecapograssi.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/bauma...
Profile article on Bauman: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/apr/05/society