Tag: the period

• Fragmentary, No. 8

  [T]he four theses of modernity. We cannot not periodize. Modernity is not a concept, philosophical or otherwise, but a narrative category. The narrative of modernity cannot be organized around categories of subjectivity; consciousness and subjectivity are unrepresentable; only situations of modernity can be narrated. No ‘theory’ of modernity makes sense today unless it comes to…

  • R L • powell

  August 24, 2015

  Academia, Fragments, Theory

  historiography, history, maxims, Modernity, periodization, the dash, the modern, the period