Danger: Derrida at Work

摘要

The project 'Deconstructive evaluation of risk in depend- them or reconstruct them.'2 If safety critical systems are such an overpowering inheritance, the author is ability arguments and safety cases' (DERIDASC) is experimenting with a consciously postmodern approach exhorting us to make a considerable ideological commitment to the process of reconstructing them. The to problems of language in debates about risk. There are two aspects to this work. The first is more technical, author in question does not hide his dislike of the nuclear industry$ but even 'play safe' arguments against and is concerned with the analysis of problems posed by the process of assigning safety critical systems a particular risks often turn out to be arguments in favour of risking something else instead (for example, 'safety certificate'. The second aspect concerns the language used in explicitly political debates about social change). the risks society should or should not accept. It is on this latter, non-specialist aspect of DERIDASC that this paper concentrates.