Ontological Considerations

The utility of the study of history is in the apprehension of an idea as to where we are now, via knowledge of the past.

A relatively accurate historical

assessment of our current place

in space-time provides us with further ideas for consideration in

making good decisions for

future direction.

Human civilization and history begin with the development of the sign-system of language-writing over five millennia ago; however, for people living now, an understanding of the modern world essentially begins from the so-called “First Industrial Revolution” (c. 1850)—and this is where the locus of my own project begins.

The term “modernism” includes of course the

arts as well as information techne—

(i.e., economic, scientific, and political

evolutions).

And so, where are we now?

A critic might suggest that from peak modernism (c. 1950) the sum of human civilization has proceeded via an elegant postmodernism unto an unfortunate current state of neo-primitivism, hypernormalisation, and post-truth.

Yet, without a proper grasp of

historical understanding, how should we

have concepts for moving towards a

brighter neo-renaissance?

© 2017 Tully Atkinson