"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, an with them the relations of production, and with them all the relations of society... Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social relations, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones."
Marx is not generally associated with modernism but his viewpoint on the changing and development of the modern world appear to be essential to the understanding of modernity. In the excerpt above from the Communist Manifesto Marx, in my humble opinion, has as solid definition on what the article is describing as modernity. The up and down flux; the desire of those caught in the whirlwind that is modernism to hold onto the traditional past but eager to revolutionize into the future. He describes a cycle that is ongoing. Those who are questioning modernity never get answers and the following generation experience the same. There's so much constant changing and conflict within modernism itself that there is not solution.
Nietzsche follows up later saying that the only way to adapt to this whirlwind that is modernism is to forgo the idea of being unique and settle into mediocrity. Rather than fighting with the change, accept the chaos as a type of morality.
While Marx and Nietzsche clearly have different opinions about the phenomenon that is modernism, together they seem to compliment each other in a way that lays the working (or not working) parts of modernism onto the table. Modernity has continued to grow and evolve through art, media, and academics much in the ways that both theorists mentioned, through the ever-changing maelstrom brought on by the new generations. This can be very distinctively seen through the works of artists such as Twyla Tharp, Jackson Pollock, and Garcia Marquez, among many more. According to this article, these are the works we need to look at as students of theorists such as Marx and Nietzsche in order to fully understand the development of modernism as these theorists describe it.
Marx is not generally associated with modernism but his viewpoint on the changing and development of the modern world appear to be essential to the understanding of modernity. In the excerpt above from the Communist Manifesto Marx, in my humble opinion, has as solid definition on what the article is describing as modernity. The up and down flux; the desire of those caught in the whirlwind that is modernism to hold onto the traditional past but eager to revolutionize into the future. He describes a cycle that is ongoing. Those who are questioning modernity never get answers and the following generation experience the same. There's so much constant changing and conflict within modernism itself that there is not solution.
Nietzsche follows up later saying that the only way to adapt to this whirlwind that is modernism is to forgo the idea of being unique and settle into mediocrity. Rather than fighting with the change, accept the chaos as a type of morality.
While Marx and Nietzsche clearly have different opinions about the phenomenon that is modernism, together they seem to compliment each other in a way that lays the working (or not working) parts of modernism onto the table. Modernity has continued to grow and evolve through art, media, and academics much in the ways that both theorists mentioned, through the ever-changing maelstrom brought on by the new generations. This can be very distinctively seen through the works of artists such as Twyla Tharp, Jackson Pollock, and Garcia Marquez, among many more. According to this article, these are the works we need to look at as students of theorists such as Marx and Nietzsche in order to fully understand the development of modernism as these theorists describe it.
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