Isolate Masses:Modern Visual Culture from mass murder for what mirror blaze Watch Video
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Description: In order to discover the modern human I’ve been introduced to a number of texts and works of art that appear to have shaped the modern man's conception of himself or our contemporary view of him. It is poignant and not accidental that this course ends with discussions of hopelessness, mass murder and exploitation. The hope that fueled Rousseau, Defoe, Smith and Marx was perverted and brought to its logical but tragic ends in fascism, colonialism, disillusionment and the failure of the Soviet U