Robin van den Akker - Utopia for Beginners
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Raymond Williams defined a "structure of feeling" as a quality of social experience that characterizes a generation or period. While some had declared that history stopped progressing, Robin van den Akker argues we are instead in a "bend of history" since around the turn of the millennium, as defined by forces like new technologies, global crises, and changing economic systems, as well as the millennial generation. The Center for New Aesthetics explored ideas of "repositioning" and a "new regime of historicity" in this context.
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