Sentences with phrase «myth of progress»

With the breakdown of communism in Eastern Europe, we may well see a rekindling in the West of the liberal myth of progress — to the extent that it ever died in the American heart.

It's a poetic, constructive irony that gives the show a necessary self - reflexivity about modernity's positivist myth of progress.

In the realm of ideas, the myth of linear progress has an unbreakable hold also on the minds of conservationists who understand themselves to be at war with the myth of progress.

Sadly, their integralism was the mirror image of the liberalism they fought; they inverted the myth of progress into a narrative of inevitable decadence.

The myth of progress is a dandy way to rationalize the status quo, and promote the idea that «We never had it so good.»

Such a judgment is borne out by a new generation's rejection of the myth of progress.

She has performed impromptu acrobatic routines in a Stockholm subway car in Paralyzed (2003) and moonwalked her way through the streets of Manhattan at night in The Myth of Progress — Moonwalk (2008), which premiered in the New Museum exhibition «After Nature,» (2008) and marked Lidén's first New York museum presentation.

[36] For example, according to McEvilly, postmodernism begins with realizing one no longer believes in the myth of progress, and Duchamp sensed this in 1914 when he changed from a modernist practice to a postmodernist one, «abjuring aesthetic delectation, transcendent ambition, and tour de force demonstrations of formal agility in favor of aesthetic indifference, acknowledgement of the ordinary world, and the found object or readymade.»

Klara Lidén: The Myth of Progress 12 October — 19 January 2014 IMMA presents the first solo exhibition in Ireland by Swedish - born artist Klara Lidén, featuring a selection of her Poster Paintings, accompanied by a film work Der Mythos des Fortschritts (Moonwalk)[The myth of progress (Moonwalk)-RSB-(2008) and a selection of recent and new c - prints, one of which has been taken in Dublin and is presented for the first time at IMMA.

From one extreme, some maintain at all costs the myth of progress and say that the ecological problems will be solved simply by new technical applications, not by ethical considerations or fundamental changes.

... those who doggedly uphold the myth of progress and tell us that ecological problems will solve themselves simply with the application of new technology and without any need for ethical considerations or deep change.