Theory: Technoculture and

Risk

Name: Riddhi JaniRoll no: 25

Paper:8, Cultural StudiesSemester: 2nd

Submitted to: Department of English

M.K.Bhavnagar University

Risk Society

• Introduced in 1980s.

• Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens- Key writers on Modernity.

Definition:-

• a risk society is "a society increasingly preoccupied with the future (and also with safety), which generates the notion of risk.”

-Anthony Giddens

• Risk society is "a systematic way of dealing with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernization itself”

-Ulrich Beck

Risk & Technoculture

• Beck says that Risk = threat & not real.

• More risks in technoculture.

• Technoculture = fully technologized world.

• ‘Technorisks’ in technoculture.

• ‘WMD’- replaced by technological systems.

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1. Industrial Risks & Technology

• ‘Scarcity’- the base of industrial society.

• Industrial society make use of ‘scarcity’ as ‘risk’.

• Help of media (technology).

• Risk produces more risks.

• Adds for soaps.

2. Culture of Warnings

• Beck says that such warnings are given by government and science but Van Loon argues about commerce also.

• Warning for safety= increase the consumptions.

• Virus is technorisk & we go to anti-virus.

• Shakes our sensibilities.

3. Risk of Confidentiality

• Hacking of confidential information.

• Moral panics about children.

4. Circular Arrangement

• Technology is a risk, gives information about risks.

• No any risk theory before technology.

• Reproduction of risks.

5. Beck’s Reasons

• Autopoietic risk culture.

• Closed political system is responsible.

• No more concerned with people’s opinions/criticism/demands.

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