The Condition of Postmodernity 13 - autonomous learning
The Condition of Postmodernity 13 - autonomous learning
The Condition of Postmodernity 13 - autonomous learning
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80 <strong>The</strong> passage from modernity to postmodernityPlate 1.17 This atrium in the IBM building on Madison Avenue, New York,attempts a garden atmosphere within a secure space sealed <strong>of</strong>f from adangerous, heavily built-up and polluted city outside.1986) have returned again and again to consideration <strong>of</strong> it. But Ithink it is fair to say that the modernist push, partly for practical,technical, and economic, but also for ideological reasons, did go out<strong>of</strong> its way to repress the significance <strong>of</strong> symbolic capital in urban life.<strong>The</strong> inconsistency <strong>of</strong> such a forced democratization and egalitarianism<strong>of</strong> taste with the social distinctions typical <strong>of</strong> what, after all, remaineda class-bound capitalist society, undoubtedly created a climate <strong>of</strong>repressed demand if not repressed desire (some <strong>of</strong> which was expressedin the cultural movements <strong>of</strong> the 1960s). This repressed desire pro-
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