Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> We need structure, goals, and various sorts of hope (hope we'll get
> laid, hope we'll live well, hope those ICBMs will remain dangerous
> works of un-used cosmic art).
>
> So we defy, in a way, the universe's lack of concern (and modernity's
> shapelessness that comes as a result of knowing this) by filling in
> the gap ourselves.
>
> So as long as we're recognizably human, this will be necessary. If
> anything like the imagined post-human arrives...the game changes. But
> that's speculation of the wildest kind.
I'd love to join this conversation, but could one of you offer a tentative definition of modernity? I mean other than the ideology of progress based on technical progress and a neo-classical/function-based aesthetic ....
Joanna