Modernity

The broad regime of statements and practices — secularisation, rationalisation, industrialisation, the nation-state, the autonomous individual and progress — that names the condition and self-understanding of the modern West and its global diffusion. As the connective tissue between many theories and institutions, modernity supplies the discourse within which the modern moral order, the market, the public sphere and modern architecture itself become thinkable. It is contested by postcolonial, decolonial and alternative-modernities critiques.