Solutionism: Difference between revisions

"The belief that all difficulties have benign solutions, often of a technocratic nature."&nbsp;Jennifer Lloyd @JEVLloyd, [https://twitter.com/JEVLloyd/status/394982721887281152?s=20 Oct 28, 2013]<br/> &nbsp;

 

 

Political philosopher Gilles Paquet ( - 2019) coined the term 'solutionism.'

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"Solutionism: the new optimism "&nbsp;

[[File:Morozov-To-Save-Everything-Click-Here-2013-cover.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything Click Here, 2013]]

 

 

Social critic and Silicon Valley gadfly Evgeny Morozov popularized the term 'solutionism' with his 2013 book&nbsp;''To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism.&nbsp;''

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''«&nbsp;Il n'y a pas de problèmes&nbsp;; il n'y a que des solutions. L'esprit de l'homme invente ensuite le problème. Il voit des problèmes partout.&nbsp;»''<br/> "There are no problems; there are only solutions. The mind of the man then invents the problem. He sees problems everywhere." - André Gide

 

 

''«&nbsp;S'il n'y a pas de solution c'est qu'il n'y a pas de problème.»&nbsp;''<br/> ("If there is no solution, there is no problem.")<br/> - Jacques Rouxel.

 

 

"Any single solution is always what gets us in trouble."<br/> [https://twitter.com/andres_duany @andres_duany] at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNU23?src=hashtag_click #CNU23]<br/> &nbsp;

 

 

"I've been forming idea there's a pattern, a sort of inverse [https://twitter.com/hashtag/solutionism?src=hashtag_click #solutionism], call it [https://twitter.com/hashtag/nosolutionism?src=hashtag_click #nosolutionism], in which anything but the&nbsp;final, total, permanent presumed solution is figured as diversionary, false, fatally compromising, pointless, etc."&nbsp; - @tmccormick&nbsp;[https://twitter.com/tmccormick/status/637036156228534272?s=20 Aug 27, 2015].&nbsp;

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*Wicked problem

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*Kolakowski, Leszek. “In Praise of Inconsistency,” Dissent, 1964.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;