1. Discussion Question: What does modernity mean to you? Is it good or bad?
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1. Discussion Question: What does modernity mean to you? Is it good or bad?
2. Reading Reflection: Solid ONE-page reflection paper about your thoughts on the reading. This could include a brief summary and your opinion. There are not many guidelines or format (e.g., APA, MLS style) for these weekly reading reflection assignments. But please use 12-point font, Times New Roman, and don’t get ridiculous with the margin settings.
Reading: Postmodernism and Environmental Change: All That is Solid Melts into Air pp. 131-161 (file uploaded)
Lectures: Modernity, Modernism, Modernization (file uploaded)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMxUO-6hfDU
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Modernism, modernity
and modernization Week 3, Lecture 4
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“Modernism is any attempt by modern men and
women to become subjects as well as objects
of modernization, to get a grip on the modern.”
Berman, p. 5
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Men and women as
objects of
modernization
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Men and women as
objects of
modernization
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Men and women as
objects of
modernization
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Men and women as
objects of
modernization
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Men and women as
subjects of
modernization
Liberty leading the people,
Eugene Delacroix
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Men and women as
subjects of
modernization
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Men and women as
subjects of
modernization
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Men and women as
subjects of
modernization
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Men and women as
subjects of
modernization
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Modernization
• “The maelstrom of modern life has been fed from many sources…” p. 16
• Science
• Material Production
• Technology
• Politics
• Finance
• Culture-communication
• Culture-civil society
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Three Phases of Modernization
Phase One: Groping Desperately
(early 1500s – late 1700s)
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European
globalization
1492: Columbus
1494: Treaty of Tordesillas
1498: Vasco de Gama rounds the
Cape of Good Hope en route to
India
1519-1522: Magellan and Elcano
circumnavigate the globe
1550: Valladolid Conference
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Communication
Technology
1430’s: Johannes Gutenberg
invents the printing press
1500: Printing presses in 236
cities in 12 European countries
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Culture and Religion
1517: Luther publishes “The
Ninety-Five Theses”
1500s-1600s: Secular
justifications of government and
law emerge (Machiavelli, Thomas
More, Thomas Hobbes, John
Locke)
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The Rise of the
Sovereign State
1616-1648: The Thirty Years’ War
1648: Treaties of Westphalia:
“cuius regio, eius religio”
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Three phases of modernization
• Phase Two: Revolution! (late 1700s – early 1900s)
“A great modern public abruptly and dramatically comes
to life.”
“An age of explosion and upheaval.”
“An inner dichotomy.”
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European
globalization
Late 1700s – early 1800s: Rise of
laissez-faire economics (free
trade)
1800s: Expansion of European
trade across the globe
1839-1860: Anglo-Chinese Opium
Wars
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Communication
Technology
1500s-1800s: Rise of the
“bourgeois public sphere”–
(French) salons, (British)
coffeehouses, (German)
Tischgesellschaften
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Culture and Religion
Late 1700s-early 1800s:
Romanticism, rebellion against
modernity
Wanderer above the sea of fog,
Caspar David Friedrich
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The Rise of the
Sovereign State
1800s: Increase in administrative
control
1790: US Census begins
1801: UK Census begins
1895: German Census begins
1860s: Haussman’s Renovation
of Paris
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Nature and Science
1804-1814: Steam Powered
Locomotive
1809: Electric light
1814: Photography
1829: Typewriter
1830: Sewing Maching
1839: Bicycle
1858: Internal Combustion
Engine
1862: Machine gun
1876: Telephone
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Three phases of modernization
• Phase Three: Expansion of the Explosion (early 1900s –
present)
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European
globalization
Early 1900s: Globalization I (as
much global trade in 1910 as in
1980s)
1990s: Globalization II (fall of
USSR, rise of internet,
liberalization of China)
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Communication
Technology
20th c: Radio, Television, Internet
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Culture and Religion
1900s-1950s: Secularization of
Europe
1920s-1950s: Rise of mass
media and pop culture
1950s-?: Fragmentation of
popular into sub-cultures
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The Rise of the
Sovereign State
1914, 1939: Total War
1920s: Rise of the totalitarian
state (fascism and communism)
1940s: Rise of state intelligence
(CIA, FBI, M15 (UK), KGB (USSR)
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Nature and Science
1945: The Atomic Bomb
1958: First commercial
transatlantic airplane flight
1969: Cuyahoga River (Cleveland,
OH) catches fire
1978: Three Mile Island
1960s-1990s: The birth of the
Internet
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Coping with modernity
• Affirming modernity
• Resisting modernity
• Withdrawing from modernity
• What is Berman’s preferred way of coping with
modernity?
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