this portentous philosophical phrase or statement is not outside the work but inside it
on Damien Hirst's 'The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living'
[...] political and cultural commentators have returned to the ideal of modernity as something the West can successfully offer the underdeveloped parts of the world (euphemistically called ‘the emerging markets’) at a moment when modernization itself is clearly as obsolete as the dinosaur. For mode…
the Bergsonian durée
he introduced durée as a theory of time and consciousness in his PhD thesis, as a response to Kantian ideas (I don't really know anything more)
[...] I began to realize that it was globalization that formed, as it were, the substructure of postmodernity, and constituted the economic base of which, in the largest sense, postmodernity was the superstructure. The hypothesis, at that point, was that globalization was a new stage of capitalism,…
