Reading the clearest cultural map summarizing the 100-year flow of the 20th century
Artist and cultural theorist Cody Choi, beloved by university students for his enlightening lectures, has condensed the vast realms of art, philosophy, politics, and history into a clear and concise cultural map of the 20th century. This book revisits the past 100 years through the lens of ‘culture,’ tracing the intellectual and cultural movements that shaped the century—from Marx’s modernism, Saussure’s structuralism, Lyotard’s postmodernism, to Barthes’s post-structuralism. Each chapter includes timelines to help readers visualize the order of cultural developments. Choi’s reflections, informed by his firsthand experiences as an artist and cultural theorist, offer readers a thorough understanding of the cultural forces that have shaped our world.
