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1. Discussion Question: What does modernity mean to you? Is it good or bad?

2. Reading Reflection: Solid ONE-page reflection paper about your thoughts on the reading. This could include a brief summary and your opinion. There are not many guidelines or format (e.g., APA, MLS style) for these weekly reading reflection assignments. But please use 12-point font, Times New Roman, and don’t get ridiculous with the margin settings.

1. Discussion Question: What does modernity mean to you? Is it good or bad?

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Reading: Postmodernism and Environmental Change: All That is Solid Melts into Air pp. 131-161 (file uploaded)
Lectures: Modernity, Modernism, Modernization (file uploaded)

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMxUO-6hfDU

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Modernism, modernity
and modernization Week 3, Lecture 4

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“Modernism is any attempt by modern men and
women to become subjects as well as objects
of modernization, to get a grip on the modern.”

Berman, p. 5

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Men and women as
objects of
modernization

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Men and women as
objects of
modernization

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Men and women as
objects of
modernization

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CSBS 310

Men and women as
objects of
modernization

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CSBS 310

Men and women as
subjects of
modernization

Liberty leading the people,
Eugene Delacroix

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Men and women as
subjects of
modernization

Eastern Washington University

CSBS 310

Men and women as
subjects of
modernization

Eastern Washington University

CSBS 310

Men and women as
subjects of
modernization

Eastern Washington University

CSBS 310

Men and women as
subjects of
modernization

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CSBS 310

Modernization

• “The maelstrom of modern life has been fed from many sources…” p. 16

• Science

• Material Production

• Technology

• Politics

• Finance

• Culture-communication

• Culture-civil society

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Three Phases of Modernization

Phase One: Groping Desperately
(early 1500s – late 1700s)

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European
globalization

1492: Columbus
1494: Treaty of Tordesillas
1498: Vasco de Gama rounds the
Cape of Good Hope en route to
India
1519-1522: Magellan and Elcano
circumnavigate the globe
1550: Valladolid Conference

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Communication
Technology

1430’s: Johannes Gutenberg
invents the printing press
1500: Printing presses in 236
cities in 12 European countries

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Culture and Religion

1517: Luther publishes “The
Ninety-Five Theses”
1500s-1600s: Secular
justifications of government and
law emerge (Machiavelli, Thomas
More, Thomas Hobbes, John
Locke)

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The Rise of the
Sovereign State

1616-1648: The Thirty Years’ War
1648: Treaties of Westphalia:
“cuius regio, eius religio”

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Three phases of modernization

• Phase Two: Revolution! (late 1700s – early 1900s)

“A great modern public abruptly and dramatically comes
to life.”

“An age of explosion and upheaval.”

“An inner dichotomy.”

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European
globalization

Late 1700s – early 1800s: Rise of
laissez-faire economics (free
trade)
1800s: Expansion of European
trade across the globe
1839-1860: Anglo-Chinese Opium
Wars

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Communication
Technology

1500s-1800s: Rise of the
“bourgeois public sphere”–
(French) salons, (British)
coffeehouses, (German)
Tischgesellschaften

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Culture and Religion

Late 1700s-early 1800s:
Romanticism, rebellion against
modernity

Wanderer above the sea of fog,
Caspar David Friedrich

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The Rise of the
Sovereign State

1800s: Increase in administrative
control
1790: US Census begins
1801: UK Census begins
1895: German Census begins
1860s: Haussman’s Renovation
of Paris

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Nature and Science

1804-1814: Steam Powered
Locomotive
1809: Electric light
1814: Photography
1829: Typewriter
1830: Sewing Maching
1839: Bicycle
1858: Internal Combustion
Engine
1862: Machine gun
1876: Telephone

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Three phases of modernization

• Phase Three: Expansion of the Explosion (early 1900s –
present)

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European
globalization

Early 1900s: Globalization I (as
much global trade in 1910 as in
1980s)
1990s: Globalization II (fall of
USSR, rise of internet,
liberalization of China)

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Communication
Technology

20th c: Radio, Television, Internet

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Culture and Religion

1900s-1950s: Secularization of
Europe
1920s-1950s: Rise of mass
media and pop culture
1950s-?: Fragmentation of
popular into sub-cultures

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The Rise of the
Sovereign State

1914, 1939: Total War
1920s: Rise of the totalitarian
state (fascism and communism)
1940s: Rise of state intelligence
(CIA, FBI, M15 (UK), KGB (USSR)

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Nature and Science

1945: The Atomic Bomb
1958: First commercial
transatlantic airplane flight
1969: Cuyahoga River (Cleveland,
OH) catches fire
1978: Three Mile Island
1960s-1990s: The birth of the
Internet

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Coping with modernity

• Affirming modernity

• Resisting modernity

• Withdrawing from modernity

• What is Berman’s preferred way of coping with
modernity?

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