Week 3 Thursday 14th October.

Today's lecture was on Modernism. Lets just say I have learnt that it's a confusing subject but in the words of Chris Horrie "it's okay to be confused" so I guess I'm not close to failing yet!

We began talking about Mozart and other modern composers and how their music reflected the modern times. The different sections of the music are like the architecture for example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJf4ZffkoI

The Modernist movement believes in:

• relativity, that there are no absolutes
• everything is made of nothing!
• de-centered universe - no middle
• physco analysis

Thomas Kuhn wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions which is an analysis of the history of science.

Frederick Nietzsche, a 19th century German philosopher is an important person to journalists as he was fantastic at creating shocking 'headlines' such as 'GOD IS DEAD' and 'MANKIND IS A THING THAT MUST BE OVERCOME'. He believed in individualism, was against democracy and did not like women as they brought life...

Dorothy Parker was an American poet and satirist.

Apologies that these notes make little sense, I am right now a little confused myself. I will come back to them later to try and make actual English sentences out of them.