Zygmunt Bauman

Ralph Waldo Emerson pointed out, when skating on thin ice your salvation is in speed

What is wrong with the society we live in, said Cornelius Castoriadis, is that it stopped questioning itself.

point is, however, that contemporary society has given to the ‘hospitality to critique’ an entirely new sense and has invented a way to accommodate critical thought and action while remaining immune to the consequences of that accommodation, and so emerging unaffected and unscathed – reinforced rather than weakened – from the tests and trials of the open-house policy.