Accident

Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
$35.00
Must read book to understand how increased complexity generates unanticipated risks. Complex interactions + tight coupling = normal accidents.

Case studies include nuclear, marine shipping and space exploration industries.

Increased socio-economic complexity has spread these "normal accidents" far beyond the domains highlighted in the book. From the financial crisis to regional/ political instability - a wide variety of modern life can be explained through the lens of Normal Accidents.

Bottom-line: If everything is going well, you don't know everything that's going on.

Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History
$35.00
An accidental glance at a newspaper notice causes Rousseau to collapse under the force of a vision. A car accidentally hits Giacometti, and he experiences an epiphany. Darwin introduces accident to the basic process of life, and Freud looks to accident as the expression of unconscious desire. Accident, Ross Hamilton claims, is the force that makes us modern. Tracing the story of accident from Aristotle to Buster Keaton and beyond, Hamilton¡Çs daring book revives the tradition of the grand history of ideas.

Accident tells an original history of Western thought from the perspective of Aristotle¡Çs remarkably durable categories of accident and substance. Throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages, Aristotle¡Çs distinction underwrote an insistence on order and subordination of the inessential. In a groundbreaking innovation, Hamilton argues that after the Reformation, the concept of accident began to change places with that of substance: accident became a life-transforming event and effectively a person¡Çs essence.? For moderns, it is the accidental, seemingly trivial moments of consciousness that, like Wordsworth¡Çs ¡Èspots of time,¡É create constellations of meaning in our lives. Touching on a broad array of images and texts?Augustine, Dante, the frescoes of Raphael, Descartes, Jane Austen, the work of the surrealists, and twentieth-century cinema?Hamilton provides a new way to map the mutations of personal identity and subjectivity.???

Accident
$7.99
the book came 2 days before the last date it said it would come in.
the book came in good condition despite the fact that it said "used"
it looked pretty new just a little bent but its almost perfect

Dirk Bogarde Collection (Accident/The Mind Benders/The Servant)
$39.98
The inclusion of The Mind Benders lets this set down as it is a far lesser film than The Servant or Accident. It would have been better to have made a box-set of the Losey-Pinter collaborations, which would have included Accident, The Servant and then The Go-Between. Unfortunately no Bogarde, but Alan Bates would be a good substitute.