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Epochal Destruction
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Often we hear that modernism is all about speed. Better to say that modernism marked the age of acceleration, an explosion in rates of change. Today we routinely link capitalism and the metaphor of explosive growth. Capitalism threatens to consume everything in its path, producing great destruction along the way. This is conspicuously so with the advent of modern war epochally transformed by the modernist acceleration of technical innovation. Appalling loss of human life and systematic destruction of productive capacity inspired a world order movement obdurately modern in its conceptual underpinnings. It counted the League of Nations and then the United Nations among its institutional successes, while imagining that a world federal republic would duly emerge. Precipitous decolonization preserved the colonial legacy of accidental borders and divided peoples, thereby accommodating the global expansion of international society with surprising ease; dreams of a world federal republic faded away.
Title: Epochal Destruction
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Often we hear that modernism is all about speed.
Better to say that modernism marked the age of acceleration, an explosion in rates of change.
Today we routinely link capitalism and the metaphor of explosive growth.
Capitalism threatens to consume everything in its path, producing great destruction along the way.
This is conspicuously so with the advent of modern war epochally transformed by the modernist acceleration of technical innovation.
Appalling loss of human life and systematic destruction of productive capacity inspired a world order movement obdurately modern in its conceptual underpinnings.
It counted the League of Nations and then the United Nations among its institutional successes, while imagining that a world federal republic would duly emerge.
Precipitous decolonization preserved the colonial legacy of accidental borders and divided peoples, thereby accommodating the global expansion of international society with surprising ease; dreams of a world federal republic faded away.
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