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'Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainity and agitation distinquish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones ... All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.' Marx

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November 20, 2009

Peter Osborne's The Politics of Time starts with Marshall Berman's account of modernity in All That is Solid Melts into Air as the experience of a dynamic and inherently contradictory process of constant change, a 'maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal. This text aims to renew our sense of modernity by giving us back 'a sense of our own modern roots'.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 8:49 PM |