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# The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.
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Jan 20, 09
I almost chose this novel for our literary reading for this cultural period. The first couple chapters are particularly funny and worth reading on their own as a satire on a prevalent attitude in 19th c. culture. And a prevalent attitude in contemporary c
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NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!'
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Jan 20, 09
What is this doing in Cultural Period 8? Compare to the first and second chapters of Dicken's "Hard Times": http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/charlesdickens/HardTimes/Chap1.html
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Herbert Spencer, the 19th-century British philosopher, is remembered today as the forbidding -- almost forbidden -- father of "Social Darwinism," a school of thought declaring that the fittest prosper in a free marketplace and the human race is gradually improved because only the strong survive ... Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-born steel titan, agreed. Reading Spencer convinced Carnegie that progress was godliness and that "all is well since all grows better." He saw no "conceivable end" to man's "march to perfection."
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The first exhibition of the clad figure caused an outcry, not because the subject was a child, but because she was so unattractive ... Degas is certainly responsible for stripping the figure of the adolescent dancer of cuteness, and we could argue that his intent is partly moral, but anyone who looks for compassion in the work will not find it. The visual language of compassion was unusable for any serious artist in the 1870s and 80s, because the public art of the period oozed sentiment. Pretty beggars and plump rosy little girlies with tears in their eyes were as often to be encountered then, as fluffy kittens are today. Degas dispensed with pathos as summarily as he dispensed with glazes. His surfaces get thinner and poorer, the pigment goes on drier and drier. Line becomes more and more important, burning through the bursts of aniline colour that begin to dominate in the later work, like the skull beneath the stage-lit skin.
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Jan 24, 09
Degas gallery. Have a look at the Germaine Greer article on Degas:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jan/12/degas-women-germaine-greer -
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Spencer believed that human society was inevitably progressing toward a perfect future; as apes were to humans, so 19th-century Anglo-American democracy was to the coming utopia. The louder they sang his praises, the surer Spencer's admirers could feel that they were on the cutting edge of history—that their wealth, power, and racial privilege were not the fruits of luck or exploitation but the marks of election.
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Feb 12, 09
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"Darwin and Lincoln did not make the modern world. But they helped make our moral modernity," he writes. "For more than a century they've been part of the climate of modern life, systems in the weather of the modern world." It's stormy weather ,,,
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