Modernity

Whilst presenting a number of features that have been put forward to characterize modernity as a way of life and a social system, this entry suggests a dissident genealogy that reveals a hidden history of continuities and alternatives. It thereby problematizes the norms about periodization and the a...

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Published inTheory, culture & society Vol. 23; no. 2-3; pp. 457 - 465
Main Authors Venn, Couze, Featherstone, Mike
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi SAGE Publications 01.05.2006
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Capitalism
Cultural heritage
Cultural studies
Culture
Genealogy
Historical analysis
Modernism
Modernity
Public Sphere
Religion
Subjectivity
Technocracy
Theory
technocratic reason
public sphere
capitalism
tradition
dissident genealogy
modernism
religion
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Summary:Whilst presenting a number of features that have been put forward to characterize modernity as a way of life and a social system, this entry suggests a dissident genealogy that reveals a hidden history of continuities and alternatives. It thereby problematizes the norms about periodization and the assumptions about the elaboration of a logos that underlie the concept of the modern. This approach to modernity as a complex of processes, institutions, subjectivities, and technologies challenges the more familiar history of linear temporalities and progressive transformations. The fruitfulness of seeing modernity, as much as other historical periods, as hybrid assemblages in a state of flux is that it draws attention to the heterogeneity and processual nature of cultures and feeds into the possibility of the critique of the present.
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ISSN:0263-2764
1460-3616
DOI:10.1177/0263276406064829