GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Post-Structuralism, Postmodern Architecture, Impermanence
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Shapes experience of life: bodies, desires and identities. It is dangerous to reduce explanations to biology. Biology cannot explain realities since that would mean biology shapes us, which it is not true. Questions about reason: how do we know the world: Propose and answer what the world could be. Weber: outcome of intersection between economics and religion. Final form of government and thought: post modernity. Because of this universality geographical space is irrelevant. There are no alternatives in a significant way: subsystems are flexible but the macro structures are solid, rigid. Hard to identify a central power, hence there is no target for revolution to take place. Travelling light: impermanence of objects: not built to last. Large capital: not infrastructure but not palpable technology. Capitalist era: modernism runs on binaries: grand narratives, linear growth of constant progress. Individuals are in search of multiple experiences not fixed identities. Constant mobility: snapshots: changes happen at specified times.
