“The accident reveals the substance” (Aristotele) – “If so, then the invention of the ‘substance’ is equally the invention of the ‘accident’. The shipwreck is consequently the ‘futurist’ invention of the ship, and the air crash the invention of the supersonic airliner, just as Chernobyl meltdown is the invention of the nuclear power station (...) They say invention is merely a way of seeing, of reading accidents as signs and as opportunities. If so, then it is merely high time we opened the museum (...) to that ‘indirect production’ of science and the technosciences constituted by disasters, by industrial or other catastrophes. The repetition of disasters has become a clearly recognizable historical phenomenon - The tool is tending to vanish from consciousness. We commonly say that its function has become automatic. What we should make of this is the new equation: consciousness only survives now as awareness of accidents”