Critical Theory
Week 13: Contemporary Critical Theory: Traditionalism, Modernism and Postmodernism
Modernism & Metanarratives
What Is Modernism?
Modernism as the Construction of Metanarratives
Examples:
Science
Technology
Marxism
Modern Liberal State
Religion
Nationalism
Terrorism
The Problem with Metanarratives
Is Modernity Identical to the Enlightenment?
What About Fundamentalism?
- Anthony Giddens on fundamentalism
Forms of Postmodernism
Lyotard on Postmodernism
Deconstructive vs. Constructive Postmodernism
Deconstruction
Modern & Postmodern Culture
Other Resources on Postmodernism
Postmodernism: Some Debates
Art
Modernity in Art: Early 20th Century
20th Century Art: The Search for Self and Politics
Modernity in Art: Mid 20th Century
Art After Modernism
Modernity and Place
Place/Space and Power
"Man Arrested for Wearing Peace T-Shirt in a Mall"
CNN March 6 2003
Fox News version of story
Socialist Worker version of story
Place/Space and Modernity
Fragments of the Passagenwerk
(Benjamin, Arcades Project)
Modernity and the Flâneur
The Flaneur