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The necessity of friction :

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The necessity of friction :

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[Book]

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nineteen essays on a vital force

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Nordal Åkerman (ed.).

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Heidelberg

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Physica-Verlag ; New York : Springer-Verlag

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©1993.

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(viii, 336 pages)

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Six poèmes en prose / Klaus Rifbjerg --; A free-falling society? : six introductory notes / Nordal Åkerman --; Re-discovering friction : all that is solid does not melt in air / Helga Nowotny --; An exemplary physical disposition / Rom Harré --; Friction of bodies, friction of minds / Agnes Heller --; Friction and warfare / Chris Donnelly --; Let us now praise dragging feet! / Ottar Brox --; Social change induced by technology : promotion and resistance / T.R. Lakshmanan --; Inertia and development models / Georg Sørensen --; Friction in economics / Keith Griffin --; Essential friction : error-control in organizational behavior / Gene I. Rochlin --; Playing, writing, wrestling / Sigrid Combüchen --; Why things don't happen as planned / Jon Elster --; The desire for order / Joanne Finkelstein --; Stay in my house / Kaj Nyman --; Unpredictability, frictions and order / Åke E. Andersson --; Friction and inertia in industrial design / John Heskett --; Frictionless forecasting is a fiction / Hubert L. Dreyfus, Stuart E. Dreyfus --; Frictions / Michel Tournier.

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Friction is what keeps us from realizing our goals. It is what compromises all our plans, sometimes making them unrecognizable. It defies our wish for perfection and constantly surprises us with new elements of resistance. It constitutes the divide between dream and reality. But friction is also that which gets us moving, a necessary incentive to achieve progress. Nothing can start if it cannot push off something else. By blocking or delaying the easy solution friction makes for a richer, more varied world. If it stops schemes from being completely fulfilled, it also stops them from going totally awry. To the modernist project with its one-sided rationalist pretensions, friction is unambiguously bad. And so it is being disposed of at an increasing speed. This means less and less time to pause and rethink, while the vulnerability of societies is aggravated. In "The Necessity of Friction" twenty scholars tackle this topical and important concept. A number of scientific fields are engaged: physics, philosophy, economics, architecture, organizational theory, artificial intelligence, and others. Together these contributions form the first modern-day attempt at analyzing the intriguing yet elusive subject of friction.

Friction.

Life.

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Nordal Åkerman (ed.).

Nordal Åkerman

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