Social progress has hidden, not ended, the modern discourses causing domination.
Evidence
We realize that as you read, you may be asking questions like, “What does this have to do with me? Isn’t all that sexism and racism stuff fixed already? Do social classes really exist? Didn’t the civil rights movement take care of racism and inequality? We don’t think that way any more, do we?” To a certain degree, you’ll be right. There have been major social and political changes that have been the result of specific actions against domination and have improved the quality of people’s lives. But, what we hope you’ll begin to see is that we are also dealing with critical issues, and that the discourses of modernity that we discussed above, even while they may be hidden or shifted, are still impacting our lives today. The forms of social violence and inequality we’ll be discussing have a history; they have deep cultural and socio-linguistic roots. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 671
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: what shifts in form have these discourses undergone, and what contemporary examples evidence each one still operating?
- XREF: connects to: Enlightened progress remains entangled with domination and cruelty — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 200; Bourgeois ideology conceals that domination persists beneath the rhetoric of productive work. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 130; Modernity’s disaster is not backwardness but the domination machinery itself. (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Enlightened progress remains entangled with domination and cruelty
#corroborates(0.90) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 200 - Bourgeois ideology conceals that domination persists beneath the rhetoric of productive work.
#corroborates(0.90) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 130 - Modernity’s disaster is not backwardness but the domination machinery itself.
#corroborates(0.85) - Modern societies are constitutively founded on violence, not purged of it
#corroborates(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 236 - Modernity is a contested power project, not a natural state of progress.
#corroborates(0.85) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 374 - Modernity is trouble and a problem, not simply progress
#corroborates(0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 185 - The modern concept of progress and individual development emerged from techniques of power.
#qualifies(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 243