CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Age Of Enlightenment, D. W. Griffith, Late Modernity
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Time and space: telegraph and telephone: the e(cid:373)erge(cid:374)ce of the (cid:862)(cid:373)oder(cid:374) (cid:449)orld(cid:863) A (cid:862)moder(cid:374)(cid:863) world: era of profound economic, social, political and cultural transformations (not just technological, 17th century western europe, progress, individualism, secularism, western expansion, optimism. Influences: renaissance of humanism (14th-16th centuries, the enlightenment (18th century, 3 main tenets of modernization. Political and industrial revolution: american revolution 1775-1783, french revolution 1789-1799. Effects: establishment of the political and economic bases of modernism, urbanization, labour and class, social anxieties/fears/alienation. The lonedale operators: biograph pictures 1911, d. w griffith, director, a(cid:374) i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t docu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of (cid:862)classical (cid:373)oder(cid:374)ity(cid:863) Basically, the 19th ce(cid:374)tury, (cid:449)here the (cid:862)early (cid:373)oder(cid:374)(cid:863) period is circa (cid:1005)(cid:1009)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)-1789 and late modernity comprises most of the 20th century. The telegraph: begi(cid:374)s the (cid:373)o(cid:448)e a(cid:449)ay fro(cid:373) (cid:862)the tra(cid:374)sportatio(cid:374) (cid:373)odel(cid:863) of co(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)icatio(cid:374, precursors: smoke signals, semaphore, etc, scientific discoveries about the properties of electricity. Consequences of telegraphy: effects on ideas about time and space, separates communication from transportation, reorganizes commerce, changes social practices and ideas.
