Curated category
Postmodernism
- PostmodernismThe word postmodern first appeared in print during 1870. Artist John Watkins Chapman used the phrase to describe a Postmodern style of painting that departed…
- Moral blindnessSocrates spoke of moral intellectualism while Plato described emotions clouding moral judgements. Aristotle first used the term ethics for the field of moral…
- Avant-gardeIn 1825, Benjamin Olinde Rodrigues published an essay titled The Artist, the Scientist, and the Industrialist. He used the French military term avant-garde…
- Information AgeIn 1947, a team at Bell Labs in New Jersey created the first working transistor. John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain built this germanium-based…