Anthony Giddens Quotes.
‘Taking charge of one’s life’ involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.
High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised ‘climate of risk’ characteristic of late modernity – one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.
The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.
Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming ‘I have a nightmare’
Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.
The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.
Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone’s existence.
To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (…) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.
The new mixed economy looks…for a synergy between public and private sectors.
The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.
Risk concerns future happenings – as related to present practices – and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.
The body is thus not simply an ‘entity’, but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.
