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March 5, 2020March 5, 2020

Coronavirus and the Dunny Paper Effect

The recent run on toilet paper by Australians in fear and panic of the coronavirus serves as a wonderful semiotic for understanding human decision making. We could call this the ‘Dunny paper Effect’. You can see here shoppers rushing for… Read the rest

April 28, 2019November 5, 2019

Shock and Fear in Safety

Shock and Fear in Safety There is a naïve belief in the safety industry that shocking people and the dynamics of fear are effective. We see this in the many ‘horror’ photos and clips in the sector as well as… Read the rest

May 16, 2018May 16, 2018

The Psychic Eﬀect of Safety

The Psychic Eﬀect of Safety and What to Do About It One of the ﬂow on eﬀects of the politics of Safety is unconscious fear. I met a host of oﬃcials in safety associations recently and was overcome with the… Read the rest

November 27, 2017November 26, 2017

Fear of Being-in-the-World

Fear of Being-in-the-World One of the valuable contributions of the philosophy of phenomenology is the concept of Dasein. Dasein is German for ‘being-in-the-world’ articulated by Martin Heidegger . Heidegger is a controversial philosopher because of his complicity with the Nazi… Read the rest

November 11, 2017August 26, 2018

Short-sighted Safety

Short-sighted Safety There is nothing more debilitating to human ‘being’ than hyper-fear, hyper-risk aversion and hyper-safety. Hyper-fear and hyper-risk aversion is the outcome of blind safety and ignorance. I was contacted by a person who is a parent at a… Read the rest