Why might the financial crash be decribed as 'monstorous'?

No single thing in control/in knowledge of the whole network

Responses to AI saw a shift from yellow to white meat chicken production. What defines 'white'?

Largely regulated farms, Chickens produced in short time

What is the full definition of a 'monster'? (i.e. not a characteristic)

Assemblages characterised by complexity/heterogeneity

According to Beck, modernity's reflux could be described as:

New risks produced as a consequence of modernisation

An example of 'reflex' in the Los Angeles river management case study was:

Interventions encouraged social activity close to the hazard

According to Beck, modernity's reflex could be described as

New emerging social attitudes and forms about risk

What statement conveys the shifting conceptualisations of risk/hazards over time?

From monsters to risks and back again

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Monsters Recap

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Why might the financial crash be decribed as 'monstorous'?
No single thing in control/in knowledge of the whole network
Because the effects destroyed peoples lives and pensions
Responsibility can be traced to people in multiple countries
Becuase it mixed humans and nonhuman/animal species
2
Responses to AI saw a shift from yellow to white meat chicken production. What defines 'white'?
Chickens that have been vaccinated
White meat describes Chickens just from North America
Unregulated farms, long Chicken lives
Largely regulated farms, Chickens produced in short time
3
What kind of monster characterises the debate around Alba the rabbit?
The void at the heart of human existence
The product of complexity, assemblage and denial
The transgressor, the misfit
4
What is the full definition of a 'monster'? (i.e. not a characteristic)
Something devoid of ethics
Something out of control
Mixing human/non-human categories
Assemblages characterised by complexity/heterogeneity
5
2, 4, 5-T was a kind of what used in the 1960s/70s?
Herbicide
Toilet cleaner
Birth control
Roof insulator
6
According to Beck, modernity's reflux could be described as:
New risks produced as a consequence of modernisation
New technologies being produced that make risk obsolete
Condition that sees acid leak back up into your oesophagus
Risks being conquered as a consequence of modernisation
7
How might risks in the first modernity (1800s-1950s) be described?
Spatially bounded
Out of control
Incalculable
Highly networked
8
What pre-modern idea excluded human error or fault, implying nature was unforgiving or random?
Feminism
Neoclassicism
Neoliberalism
Fatalism
9
An example of 'reflex' in the Los Angeles river management case study was:
Interventions increased magnitude of extreme events
Less injuries were reported as a result of flooding events
Interventions encouraged social activity close to the hazard
Interventions improved flood knowlege globally
10
According to Beck, modernity's reflex could be described as
Increased deaths from new risks
Involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement
New emerging social attitudes and forms about risk
New logics of risk production emerging
11
According to Latour, modernity is a story of humankind's what relationship with nature?
Awareness of
Emancipation from
Slavery to
Entwinement with
12
What statement conveys the shifting conceptualisations of risk/hazards over time?
From monsters to risks and back again
From no risk to lots of risk
From monsters to no risk anymore
From human caused to non-human caused

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Monsters Recap

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Monsters Recap

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Questions 12

Answers

1
Why might the financial crash be decribed as 'monstorous'?
No single thing in control/in knowledge of the whole network
Because the effects destroyed peoples lives and pensions
Responsibility can be traced to people in multiple countries
Becuase it mixed humans and nonhuman/animal species
2
Responses to AI saw a shift from yellow to white meat chicken production. What defines 'white'?
Chickens that have been vaccinated
White meat describes Chickens just from North America
Unregulated farms, long Chicken lives
Largely regulated farms, Chickens produced in short time
3
What kind of monster characterises the debate around Alba the rabbit?
The void at the heart of human existence
The product of complexity, assemblage and denial
The transgressor, the misfit
4
What is the full definition of a 'monster'? (i.e. not a characteristic)
Something devoid of ethics
Something out of control
Mixing human/non-human categories
Assemblages characterised by complexity/heterogeneity
5
2, 4, 5-T was a kind of what used in the 1960s/70s?
Herbicide
Toilet cleaner
Birth control
Roof insulator
6
According to Beck, modernity's reflux could be described as:
New risks produced as a consequence of modernisation
New technologies being produced that make risk obsolete
Condition that sees acid leak back up into your oesophagus
Risks being conquered as a consequence of modernisation
7
How might risks in the first modernity (1800s-1950s) be described?
Spatially bounded
Out of control
Incalculable
Highly networked
8
What pre-modern idea excluded human error or fault, implying nature was unforgiving or random?
Feminism
Neoclassicism
Neoliberalism
Fatalism
9
An example of 'reflex' in the Los Angeles river management case study was:
Interventions increased magnitude of extreme events
Less injuries were reported as a result of flooding events
Interventions encouraged social activity close to the hazard
Interventions improved flood knowlege globally
10
According to Beck, modernity's reflex could be described as
Increased deaths from new risks
Involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement
New emerging social attitudes and forms about risk
New logics of risk production emerging
11
According to Latour, modernity is a story of humankind's what relationship with nature?
Awareness of
Emancipation from
Slavery to
Entwinement with
12
What statement conveys the shifting conceptualisations of risk/hazards over time?
From monsters to risks and back again
From no risk to lots of risk
From monsters to no risk anymore
From human caused to non-human caused