I think that the greater danger occurs when scientific notions of progress (progress with a small «p,» as Michael Ruse puts it) become embroiled with
broader cultural notions of historical improvement (capital «P» Progress).
Her work subverted accepted
notions of gender, sexuality, social class, and ethnicity, and was prophetic in anticipating the
broader cultural concerns — postcolonialism, feminism, civil rights, multiculturalism, and globalization — that reached a crescendo in the 1960s and continue to be relevant today.
His practice is primarily concerned with how
notions of artistic modernity could be demonstrated to be inherently related, or porous, to
broader cultural developments such as music and the field of communications.