Abstract

The Unpredictable as a Resource As knowledge grows, the progress of science despite promises and reassurances does not provide certainty. The contents of science are increasingly specialised and closer to deciphering human life forms. Knowing the “what is” is always accompanied by governing the “what is known”, the critical reflection of culture as the human artifice par excellence. Culture also includes the unproductive philosophy, which does not offer conquests, nor absolute truths. Can the thought in the search for meaning resist the widespread blindness of science as technology, avoid the shipwreck of common living and the exhaustion of humanity’s creative resources? Perhaps only by bringing attention back to the “minor”, to the unpredictable which, despite everything, is the greatest danger and checkmate for the new mythology of technicians, experts and programmers.