United Nations Headquarters "The concept of progress must be rooted in the idea of catastrophe," observed Walter Benjamin, the author of "The Arcades Project" (Harvard University Press, 2000).
In two selections from his "Billboard" series, shots from inside a moving car frame double-edged messages, apparently added digitally, that question the concept of progress.
Advances in engineering and sciences rested on the same assumption as the concept of progress in the arts, namely, that in some fields modern men could emulate and even surpass the ancients.
Thanks to the philosophers of the Enlightenment and the 1789 revolution, the concept of progress towards an ideal society has, despite periodic turmoil and bloodshed, been a powerful narrative in the French mind.
And by aiming to balance what he calls the "structural current deficit" in five years by an extra £40bn "fiscal tightening", while promising 25% cuts in unprotected budgets, at the same time as he hacks back investment allowances and lets bankers off with a levy that is dwarfed by their own bonus payouts, Osborne turns the concept of progress on its head.
But then Karren Brady has hurdled so many obstacles, treated them as if they simply didn't exist, and is such a true believer in the concept of progress that maybe if we were all a little bit more like her, it actually would.
The concept of progress can be defined relative to each of these aspects of science.
Decolonization presented a second occasion for rethinking the concept of progress.
Implicitly or explicitly, postcolonial critics hold that this use of the concept of progress calls it into question.
That is, The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. Herbert 1965: 321.
