A Partial Perspective
Based on Bruno Latour’s We Have Never Been Modern: After the Postmodern? What is postmodernism?
Explaining “Non Modern Anthropology” using Bruno Latour’s 1993 book: We Have Never Been Modern (https://monoskop.org/images/e/e4/Latour_Bruno_We_Have_Never_Been_Modern.pdf)
Have you recently heard an uptick in the use of “modern” and criticisms of “post modern”? We have! These arguments come from a somewhat long tradition (since at least the 1970s) within science and science studies of battles between scientific realists and post moderns.
These conversations have bled into the public sphere with scholars now putting out videos on these really dense concepts. But that doesn’t mean that they have been explained accurately or faithfully enough.
In this video, we explain the origins of Modernism, what it entails, and why modernism logically led to post-modernism. Post modernism isn’t inherently bad—like any conceptual framework, it’s all about how it’s utilized.
We also explain terms like pre-modernism and anti-modernism, explaining how they all relate back to modernism.
1. Modernism
2. Pre-Modernism
3. Anti-modernism
4. Post-modernism
Understanding these four can help understand the scholarly conversations now being conducted over the web.
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This video uses Philosopher Bruno Latour’s book: We Have Never Been Modern (1993), to explain these concepts. Find the book for FREE here:
https://monoskop.org/images/e/e4/Latour_Bruno_We_Have_Never_Been_Modern.pdf
Latour, Bruno. 1993. We Have Never Been Modern, translated by Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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Non modernism sounds really similar as a concept to Metamodernism? Have you looked into it?
Nice voice, great editing, entertaining examples and interesting content… Thank you
Great video. Thank you!
Thank you for this great introduction on Latour. I really appreciate this!
Very well said! 👏👏👏 I also make videos and content on anti-modern and traditional living and it's a fresh breath of air to see another video similar to it. I'm definitely not modern, I'm very much an old soul.👍 Thanks for sharing! ❤