Cuckoo Habermas

This was a hard reading for me to grasp, I find myself questioning different aspect of the reading rather than drawing conclusions. The idea that “we are experience the end of the idea of modern art” (100) makes me wonder. How are experiencing the end of ‘modern art’? In a sense isn’t something that is thought to be modern the change from the old to the new? In the past when there has been a change in art it usually was a further development of the past in one-way or another. This draws on the concept that nothing is never new, only a newer version of something that already exist. So, are we experiencing the end? Rather we are the start of something new that is being developed from past ideas.

We are always living in a time that we believe to be the most advanced. Then something new is developed. The new development is seen as being modern, yet we use to think the what it was developed from was modern. Society is always going to be improving, which results in society being more modern that then past.