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is a continuation of the enlightenment project to criticize the existing state of affairs and change it for the better, to eliminate systematic and unnecessary exploitation.

the modernist felt that with this knowledge [acquired at a dizzying pace] it was possible to criticize the existing state of affairs and change it for the better, to eliminate systematic and unnecessary exploitation. . . ' (Resch 1989:514).

is a place, a design, and a style rather than as a concept. It is a very specific type of architecture, that of globes. A modernist is someone who lives under a vast dome, and who sees things as though sitting under a huge architecture, the globe of science, the globe of reason, the globe of politics.

We move from envelopes to envelopes, from folds to folds, never from one private sphere to the Great Outside. Modernism, in the hands of Sloterdijk is no longer a concept. It is a place, a design, a style. It is a very specific type of architecture to which the whole second volume of Sphären is dedicated: that of Globes. A modernist is someone who lives under a vast dome, and who sees things as though sitting under a huge architecture, the Globe of Science, the Globe of Reason, the Globe of Politics. (latour cautious prometheus)

is a social tension between inexhaustible technological growth, class inequality, and imperialism.

a social tension between a new and seemingly inexhaustible growth of technology and productive capacityk, and social relations of class inequality and escalating tensions between imerialist powers, both outcomes of the rapitd internal and international expansion of capitalism during the nineteenth century. (Resch 1989:513)

is a thought marked by the belief that human existence is contingent.

What marks modernist thought from one end to another is the belief that human existence is contingent that it has no ground, goal, direction, or necessity, and that our species might quite easily never have emerged on the planet. (Eagleton 2007: 14)

is an attitude decisively influenced by the manifest contradictions and irrational development of bourgeois europe.

Modernism was decisively influenced by the manifest contradictions and irrational development of bourgeois Europe' (Resch 1989:513)

is any attempt by modern men and women to become subjects as well as objects of modernization, to get a grip on the modern world and make themselves at home in it.

In all That Is Solid Melts Into Air, I define modernism as any attempt by modern men and women to become subjects as well as objects of modernization, to get a grip on the modern world and make themselves at home in it. This is a broader and more inclusive idea of modernism than those generally found in scholarly books. It implies an open and expansive way of understanding culture... very different from the curatorial approach that breaks up human activity into fragments and locks the fragments into separate cases, labeled by time, place, language, genre and academic discipline. (Berman 'all that is solid' 5) As an Urban Aesthetic (Berman)

is characterized by the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights (such as manet and baudelaire and rimbaud) displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.

When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions. J. G. Ballard

is innovation in ideology, ambivalent and undecidable in realization --.

As always, however, the dilemmas of the postmodern themselves modify (and are in turn modified by) those of the modern, for which innovation was unambiguous enough as an ideological value, but structurally ambivalent and undecideable in its realization. (Jameson 1991:104)

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