Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Texas academics told to avoid 'sensitive topics' if gun law goes into effect

Oga Zalanga,

Modernity, as i see it (forget the periodizing conception of postmodernism), is unending. We are certain to go from one incredulity to another. Modernity will always be one huge bag of unsuspected surprises. Technologies will become hyper-sophisticated, laws will become increasingly crazy, our expectations will become unsettled and, i dare say, our sanity will likely become unhinged. 

This is a thought: If Weber were to be brought back to, say, New York in year 2080, would he recognise the modernity he helped conceptualized? I am not even sure of what the world would be that far out. I definitely would no longer be here then!

Adeshina Afolayan

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On Sat, 27 Feb, 2016 at 5:51 AM, Samuel Zalanga

<szalanga@gmail.com> wrote:

Exactly where this ship of modernity or advanced modernity is taking us to, I do not know. It was fascinating when I taught a course on "peoples and cultures of the United States" to note that Texas is another one country. They say, "do not mess with Texas" --  Whatever that means. 

This kind of news item makes me feel depressed frankly. I sometimes wonder whether one should return to what one social theorist described as "the tranquil nausea of bucolic life." The problem is, is such a life even possible now to a body that has already being corrupted, as Nietzsche would ask. 

Yet, moving forward, one encounters infinity of meanings and possibilities which make life meaningless even though full of things. This is what is called advanced modernity or civilization, or at least it is one example. So where are we heading to? Maybe the original idea of modernity was oversold to people especially when one remembers Rostow's fifth stage of development: "The Age of High Mass Consumption." This is the ultimate end presumably of this secular eschatological journey called modernity.

Samuel

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:30 PM, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:

Professor Falola should come home for a native bulletproof preparation, otherwise known as "odeshi".

CAO.

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