COP LECTURE - Modernity/Modernism (Notes)
From what I understood (key words):- modernity - industrialisation/urbanisation --> modern artists' response to the city (It is a psychological and subjective experience)
- everything gets standardised. There is a sense of humanity shifting the rules of nature/control (even time gets controlled?)
- surrounds the idea of enlightenment and secularisation - little social power/cultural authority
- Haussmanisation - easier to control city militaristically/social control/accommodate modern life (infrastructure etc)
- design in a specific order: the centre of paris gets gentrified/the W.C gets marginalised (out into the suburbs) --> most modern city designed for that purpose by Haussman
- individualistic society/submerged in the modern ideology
- modern capitalism/humans as faceless robots --> dictated to behave a certain ways
- pace of the development of the world - sublime/dizzying fear
Thoughts
- I would just like to point out the topic discussed during today's lecture. It was an interesting view on Modernity and Modernism. There were a few things that I never considered, in terms of human behaviour.
- I'd say that there is a reason behind the current consumerist and capitalist culture seen in today's society. It frustrates me how this behaviour did not seem to change since then.
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