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Sorry for the couple hours delayed upload- I have managed to break my laptop, tooth and phone all within the span of one week This week's lecture's were focused entirely on Modernity and the concept of modernization and what it means to us.  ... read full post >>

This week’s video/reading struck me as being particularly interesting due to the enduring legacy of the quest for ‘order’. Even today, Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan before him, and Eisenhower before him, uses rhetoric about the US military as if it’s in dire disrepair and needs to be rebuilt, needs more money. As absurd as […] read full post >>

I have always found the concept of “modernity” to be one to investigate. This drive for modernity came during the core period of the Second Industrial Revolution. Contextually, improvements in the transport industry and technology propelled states into untouchable power. Paired with the scramble for Africa, this desire for “modernization” is by no means unorthodox. […] read full post >>

I have always found the concept of “modernity” to be one to investigate. This drive for modernity came during the core period of the Second Industrial Revolution. Contextually, improvements in the transport industry and technology propelled states into untouchable power. Paired with the scramble for Africa, this desire for “modernization” is by no means unorthodox. […] read full post >>

What is modernity? From our standpoint in the internet age, the technological ‘miracles’ of the telegraph and the ‘horseless carriage’ can seem ridiculous at best. However, what began to emerge in the later part of the nineteenth and continuing into the twentieth century was a globalized utopia that became named modernity. Modernity became a cultural ideal, characterized in political (liberal democracy), economic (industrialization, global trade), social (family units, institutionalized education) qualities, as well as other hallmarks of a ‘modern’ society. An underlying question remains: who manufactured this cultural ideal that...read more read full post >>

I'm lowkey pretty sad that we didn't get a video lecture this week, but we'll manage.This week was pretty interesting, as the reading and video delved into aspects of what represents and goes into a progressing-into-Modernity Latin America's relationsh... read full post >>

I'm lowkey pretty sad that we didn't get a video lecture this week, but we'll manage.This week was pretty interesting, as the reading and video delved into aspects of what represents and goes into a progressing-into-Modernity Latin America's relationsh... read full post >>

I'm lowkey pretty sad that we didn't get a video lecture this week, but we'll manage.This week was pretty interesting, as the reading and video delved into aspects of what represents and goes into a progressing-into-Modernity Latin America's relationsh... read full post >>

Before I did this week’s reading, I didn’t think that modernity had different degrees and components to it. But I could think of a few examples where clever and innovative dictators had economic advantages but didn’t necessarily promote social advantages like liberty and freedom. So the fact that countries ruled by dictators could have economic growth … Continue reading Week 7 read full post >>

Upon watching this video, I had little to no thoughts about the word “Modernity.” Furthermore, the idea of modernity would have never been associated with the countries of Latin America, but after watching the video I have been refreshed with an abundance of new thoughts. Coming from St.Georges School, five minutes away from the ”modernized” […] read full post >>