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By the middle of the twentieth century, modernity had become so institutionalized that it was considered “post-avant-garde,” indicating that it had lost its power. Invention was the spirit and practice of modernity, and it ended with modernity. To place the demise of invention in a scientific context, according to science author John Gribbin, many of the great questions had been answered by the second half of the twentieth century: the general theory of relativity, quantum physics, biological evolution, nanotechnology, molecular genetics, and the rest. Yet the most complex feature of the universe remained unexplained, and that was human behavior (Gribbin 2004: 1). The question was, given that human behavior brought about the end of modernity, would its death shine a light on human behavior and reinterpretation?
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Honeywill, R. (2016). Certitude and Contingency: A Segue to Postmodernity. In: The Man Problem. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137551696_12
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