nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
So, basically, the "modern" subject is the subject-under-surveillance, and what Virilio calls the 'industrialization of the image' is the product of both industrialization and "modern" urban planning...the earliest "modernist" was the flaneur, the walker through a city who was aware that his own image was industrialized, multiplied and captured everywhere, in the new urban industrial "city".
This is a pretty obvious point but as a counterpoint to the "we have never been modern" thesis about the modernist's inability to think time-relations except "historically" (and eurocentrically as/in terms of the "West"), it should get a little more interesting.
It also kind of fits into "paramodernism" insofar as paramodernism doesn't recognize the "postmodern" which I think is a term that has less and less credibility all the time...Latour definitely makes quick work of downplaying the minor distinction between "modernism" and "post-modernism"...
This is a pretty obvious point but as a counterpoint to the "we have never been modern" thesis about the modernist's inability to think time-relations except "historically" (and eurocentrically as/in terms of the "West"), it should get a little more interesting.
It also kind of fits into "paramodernism" insofar as paramodernism doesn't recognize the "postmodern" which I think is a term that has less and less credibility all the time...Latour definitely makes quick work of downplaying the minor distinction between "modernism" and "post-modernism"...
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