A blind spot? the birth of an ideology clearing away the rubbish print culture nationalising religion the culture of science anatomising human nature the science of politics secularising modernising happiness from good sense to sensibility nature did the mind have a sex? education - a panacea the vulgar the pursuit of wealth reform progress the revolutionary era - "modern philosophy" lasting light?

Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

Cold or calculating? Reduced activity in the subgenual cingulate cortex reflects decreased emotional aversion to harming in counterintuitive utilitarian judgment.

This thesis provides a missing link between the British feminist art movement from
the 1970s onwards and three contemporary female artists, namely Tracey Emin,
Gillian Wearing and Sam Taylor-Wood. The dissertation demonstrates the influence
that feminist art has had on contemporary women's art. It shows how various
elements, typically associated with feminist art from a previous generation of female
artists. have been either consciously or unconsciously incorporated into the way the
three artists in question approach their work.
The ideas. concerns and ways of working of a previous generation of feminist artists
are discussed in relation to gender politics, the idea of the traditional male "genius",
the question of feminist art practice, the role of the female body, performance versus
performativity and the representation of women in visual culture. The contemporary
work is discussed in relation to the above issues, drawing out comparisons to
feminist art practice where appropriate.
The thesis also contextualises Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing and Sam Taylor-Wood
within the generation of the Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s. Here it
focuses on ideas such as self-promotion versus patronage, the particular
sensationalist art practice of the YBAs, the problematic attitude towards cultural
theory and finally, it demonstrates how women artists of that particular period
tended to work.
The dissertation does not aim to present a comprehensive survey of all feminist
visual arts activity in Britain and North America, the geographical locations of
interest for this thesis, nor is it an all encompassing art historical overview of the
activities in London, during the 1990s. The thesis should be understood as a
celebration of the significance of the feminist art movement and as a demonstration
of the validity of many of its concerns, even today, as exemplified in the work of the
three artists in question.

Gender, subjectivity and feminist art: the work of Tracey Emin, Sam Taylor-Wood and Gillian Wearing

Loss of Polit ical Power Through K n o w l e d g e The social o rde r that is l ooming on our horizon is based on knowledge . There is no th ing n e w about the fact that our soc ie ty is about to unde rgo a rapid t ransformat ion: in the past , p e r i o d s of acc e l e r a t e d soc i a l c h a n g e have b e e n c o m m o n enough occur rences . Wha t is n e w here is bo th the na ture of and the dr iv ing force b e h i n d these social , e c o n o m i c and cu l tu ra l changes . For if knowledge is not just a cons t i tu t ive feature of our m o d e r n e c o n o m y but a basic o rgan iza t iona l pr inc iple of the way we run our lives, t hen it is justif iable to talk abou t our l iving in a k n o w l e d g e society. This means no th ing more and no th ing less than that we organize our social real i ty on the basis of our knowledge . In the 1950s the Ge rman soc io log is t Helmut Schelsky ske tched out his vers ion of a n ightmare : the use of e l ec t ron ic ca lcu la t ing mach ines raises the spec t e r of the to ta l i ta r ian state, he c la imed. "Such a gove rnmen t mach ine can d e m a n d absolute obed ience , s ince it wil l be able to p r e d i c t and p lan the future wi th pe r f ec t reliability," he p r o p h e s i e d , and "in the face of t echnica l ly guaran teed truth, all o p p o s i t i o n is irrational." Half a c en tu ry la ter the Amer ican e n t r e p r e n e u r and futuro logis t Bill Joy is warn ing us of a d e v e l o p m e n t that possesses similarly n igh tmar i sh charac ter i s tics: his greatest fear is that n a n o t e c h n o l o g y might start to evolve i n d e p e n d e n t l y of its h u m a n creators. This and o the r t e chno log i e s of the fu ture cou ld pu t the h u m a n race on the e n d a n g e r e d species list, he claims. Schelsky 's p r e d i c t i o n was r ight in l ine w i th the zei tgeis t p reva i l ing in the midd le of the last cent u r y a n d as Joy's admoni t ions show, this zei tgeist is s how i ng no signs of aging. This p h e n o m e n o n is the resul t of a s y m p t o m a t i c ove re s t ima t ion of the p o w e r of m o d e r n k n o w l e d g e and technology. Yet p a r a d o x i c a l l y it is p rec i se ly k n o w l e d g e and t e c h n o l o g y tha t are p e r h a p s the mos t s igni f icant sources of the open , i n d e t e r m i n a t e soc ie ty that is g rowing up a round us today. Desp i t e all pessimistic p r ed i c t i ons we n o w find ourselves wi tnessing the end of the h e g e m o n y of such m o n o l i t h i c ins t i tu t ions as the state, the chu rch and the military. The c o n d u c t of the la t ter ' s r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s be t rays a g rowing skep t i c i sm as to the i r cont inuing capac i ty to regula te social condi t ions : control ling, p lann ing and p red i c t i ng social cond i t ions are b e c o m i n g increas ingly more difficult. Socie ty has b e c o m e more "fragile." Yet it is n e i t h e r global izat ion nor the e c o n o m i z a t i o n of social re la t ions that is r e s p o n s i b l e for this s tate of affairs bu t the loss of po l i t i ca l p o w e r t h rough know l e dge . The age of indus t r ia l i sm is coming to an end; the skills and e x p e r t i s e that w e r e neces sa ry to ma in ta in the social o rde r of indus t r ia l i sm are losing the i r efficacy. The social o r d e r that is l ooming on our h o r i z o n is based on k n o w l e d g e .

A world made of knowledge

Interpreting Mill's 'On Liberty', 1831-1900

Senator Hart delivered this lectuare as a UC Irvine Regents Lecturer in 1998. He discusses the theoretical traditions of American democracy and reform issues that face the United States.

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