CIN101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Frederick Winslow Taylor, Diegesis, Physiognomy
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A process of social cultural and technological change associated with the transition from an agrarian economy to an economy based on machine-based modes of mass production. Driven by faith in reason and scienti c method. Industrialization in the 18th and 19th c. : steam and water power, electricity, railroads, Faith in progress : technological and social. Shift to factory model of work geared toward the mass production of standardized goods and. Nichols on modernism, 188-189 how artists respond to modernization. Critique and exploration of modernization, rationalization and their effects via art. Critique of realism and the status quo : make it new . Exploration of subjective experience, interiority, effects of modernity on perception, desire and identity. The shot is not a montage element - the shot is a montage cell (a molecule) The basis of this philosophy is the dynamic conception of objects : being as a constant evolution from the interaction between two contradictory opposites.
