Modernity is trouble and a problem, not simply progress

Evidence

These various upsets, these disturbances in the continuity of the notion of the subject and the stability of identity, are indeed what modernity is like. It is not, incidentally, modernity itself. That has an older, and longer, history. But this is the beginning of modernity as trouble. Not modernity as enlightenment and progress, but modernity as a problem. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 185

Categorization

• XREF: This reframing of modernity-as-trouble rather than enlightenment resonates with the reader’s broader critical-theory reading, and anticipates how later Islamophobia scholarship treats modernity’s dark side (racial slavery, colonial othering) rather than its progress narrative. — connects to: Modernity’s disaster is not backwardness but the domination machinery itself.; The traditional-modern dichotomy obscures the pathologies of modernization. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 156; Modern individuality arises from rupture with the world, not harmony with it — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 841 (+5 more)