Modernity’s ‘disenchantment’ is an ideology constructed by the powerful

Evidence

Modernity is a project – or rather, a series of interlinked projects – that certain people in power seek to achieve. The project aims at institutionalizing a number of (sometimes conflicting, often evolving) principles: constitutionalism, moral autonomy, democracy, human rights, civil equality, industry, consumerism, freedom of the market – and secularism. It employs proliferating technologies (of production, warfare, travel, entertainment, medicine) that generate new experiences of space and time, of cruelty and health, of consumption and knowledge. The notion that these experiences constitute ‘disenchantment’ – implying a direct access to reality, a stripping away of myth, magic, and the sacred – is a salient feature of the modern epoch. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 375 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Modernity can be defined by the widening orbit between powerful and powerless — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 444; Belief in a disenchanted outside world is itself the modern enchantment — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 207; Modernity is a deliberate power project, not a natural unfolding — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 375 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Modernity is a deliberate power project, not a natural unfolding #corroborates (0.95) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 375