Modernity’s defining trait was living time as progress toward improvement

Evidence

Actually, it was the announcement of something quite important: the perception of the future was changing […] Moderns are those who live time as the sphere of a progress towards perfection, or at least towards improvement, enrichment and rightness. Since the turning point of the century — which I like to place in 1977 — humankind has abandoned this illusion. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1294

Categorization

• DEFINE: Berardi defines the modern relation to time as progress toward perfection and dates its abandonment to 1977.
• XREF: connects to: Cultural modernity as a whole is a reaction to accelerated time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 154; Modernity’s own utopian promise of progress helps generate its inversion into unfreedom — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 49; Modernity is trouble and a problem, not simply progress — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 185 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural modernity as a whole is a reaction to accelerated time #qualifies (0.82) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 154
• Modernity is trouble and a problem, not simply progress #complicates (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 185
• Modernity’s own utopian promise of progress helps generate its inversion into unfreedom #complicates (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 49
• Modern time conception treats the present as continually moving #expands (0.72) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 116
• Speed is modernity’s secular stand-in for eternal life #expands (0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 490