1st Edition

An Orderly Mess

By Helga Nowotny Copyright 2017
100 Pages
by Central European University Press

This book was triggered by the recent geopolitical shifts and the turn towards an allegedly post-factual era. An Orderly Mess gives a timely diagnosis of the current dissolution of the modern order, while highlighting the opportunities of messiness. The essay focuses on the temporal and spatial dimensions in which messiness becomes apparent today: broken time lines and fragmented spaces.... Read more
Foreword and Acknowledgements, An Orderly Mess Eigenzeit Revisited

Biography

Helga Nowotny is Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich and Former President, European Research Council, ERC.