The Modernity Machine II
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The Modernity Machine II
In the model I want to lay out, non-Western populations globally became technologically modern through the effects of scientific and technological revolutions acting on a landscape of regional early modernities that took shape 1200-1400. The science-technology strand, being far more weakly attached (if at all) to the European historical experience ... See more
Venkatesh Rao • The Modernity Machine
Metamodernism, then, is not so much a word for a new historical epoch, but rather a new disposition towards the experience of history unfolding.
Jonathan Rowson • Metamodernism and the Perception of Context: The Cultural Between, the Political After and the Mystic Beyond
Today, we are nostalgists as much as we are futurists. The new technology enables the simultaneous experience and enactment of events from a multiplicity of positions. Far from signalling its demise, these emergent networks facilitate the democratisation of history, illuminating the forking paths along which its grand narratives may navigate the he
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