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Western Subject - Coggle Diagram
Western Subject
oral culture
no written laws
knowledge is based on what is relevant in the present
no authors
no privateself
no inalienable human rights
no money
gift society
Renaissance
time of questioning and scientific discovery
introduction of print reproduction
Restoration/ Enlightenment
stable, coherent, knowable self.
reason
science
truth
progress and perfection
obedience to the laws
no conflict between what is true and what is right
Science is neutral and objective
language must be transparent
Romanticism
American Revolution
The French Revolution
The rise of the middle classes
The Industrial Revolution
Urbanization
Increasing literacy rates
Victorian Period
middle class as the dominant
not to mention the formation of a mass market
turns away from the exotic experimentation of Romantic poetry
transition into the bourgeois, domestic values of the period
Modernity and Modernism
experimentation
revolutionary political movements
"isms"
Postmodernism
extreme self-reflexivity
irony and parody
a breakdown between high and low cultural forms
retro
a questioning of grand narratives
visuality and the simulacrum vs. temporality
late capitalism
disorientation
secondary orality