Modern values in post-modernism

Deconstructing Post-Modernism: Gellner and Crocodile Dundee

A paragraph on the negative side of Romanticism, however, is in order, since Romanticism is negative at base: it developed in understandable disillusionment over the excessively optimistic claims of the Enlightenment after the fiasco of the French Revolution and its aftermath. Its discontent was wider than the Enlightenment, however: it was a discontent with civilization as such, as was argued ...

The Role of Values in Post-Modern Economics

Economists, like all mortals, spend most of their time thinking about definitive realities. We have made a profession of discovering laws of human behavior that govern resource use. We use our laws to generate policy and our desire is to progress toward the absolute truth of economics so that we need not live amid chaotic unpredictable happenings. We are proud that our discipline is a science a...

Post-War Modernism and the Music Classroom

During the late 1960s, music educators introduced the idioms of post-war modernism (otherwise known as the avant-garde) into British classrooms. As a result, creative music making, composing and improvisation, became an established part of the curriculum. However the actual idioms of musical modernism have largely vanished from schools. The writer explores the reasons for this decline, while ac...

Pop Art and the Origins of Post-Modernism

Determination of More Realistic Target 95% Values of Post Selection Delay in Modern Telephone Networks

In this paper we present the telephone network and the recommendations, dealing with the greatest target values of Post Selection Delay. It is shown that the Post Selection Delay is the sum of the delays between the network nodes and that it has the smaller dispersion than the one, recommended as the greatest in the recommendations.