To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world – and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.
— Michel Foucault Contemporary

Power structures, postmodernism

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Often attributed, a complex view of modernity.

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