Lesson One - A Brief History Of Time.

·         A God created the Earth – through a “Grand Narrative” of the world – Creating the world in 7 days.

·         All questions asked were answered by “God did it”.

·         If you were to look out for information, then God would answer it.

·         18^th/19^th Century all things changed.

·         Romanticism came along and it is personal, where you look in for answers.

·         God chose the Queen, God decided that she would rule.

·         They looked inside for the Grand Narrative.

·         A specialist was needed for everything.

·         Industrialisation is where all things were created together.

·         Everyone does something, Mass Production to consume.

·         There was no skill in being a human.

·         People became reliable.

·         There was a great social inequality.

·         Modernism was an era where “Machines were for living in” – 1922.

·         Modern techniques to improve everything.

·         Mass Production.

·         Socially improve people’s life.

·         Quick/innovative.

·         New technology to improve everything.

·         “Shock of the new”.

·         Doesn’t fit in with the time period at all therefore it doesn’t work in terms of society.

·         Bauhaus – 1925.

·         Shut down by the Nazis due to too much forward thinking.

·         1931 Artistic Housing.

·         Beauty and Elegance.

·         1952 New flats which were impossible to live in “Too futuristic”.

·         “Art to the masses” to create a better living.

·         Alienated buildings.

·         Modernism for business – inappropriate, style over substance, losing ideology.

·         POST MODERNISM “After Modern”.

·         Rejection of Modernism due to the lost purpose.

·         The Basics: End of grand narratives, image rich culture, fractured identity, intertextuality.

·         End of Grand Narratives

·         Jean Francois Lyotard – A French Philosopher, big stories were the world. Morals etc. Christianity, murder, homosexuality etc.

·         Morality is personal, relative truth, decline of traditional religion, political cynicism, science and technology is fallible, Authority is untrustworthy, Marxism and capitalism is flawed.

·         Opinions, Beliefs and Questioning.