LEO WIJNHOVEN

Mountain, Tree, Bird and Butterfly

men-nature ; the end of western modernism

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globalism

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identity

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CREATIVITY(DIVERSITY) INSTEAD OF MARKETING (UNIFORMITY)

My work is about social, economic, political and scientific developments in our post-modern world, particularly globalism (i.e. uniformity, fragmentation and identity problems), the free-market ideology (mass consumption), the media and show business and about (the end of) Western modernism (and its hierarchical relationship to nature).
I am not so much concerned with personal (free) expression as with communication (changing consciousness), which is why I use a broad range of styles (based on realism). My aim is to look critically at Western modernism (the distinction between body and mind [= matter + energy], i.e.rationalism, materialism, mechanism, dehumanising, reductionism,linear thought, narrowmindedness, hierarchy, control and exploitation of nature [taking only, no balance or harmony], the cult of self,expansion/growth [the idea of progress]. I am looking for new assumptions and starting points where modernistic assumptions have failed. In other words, I am referring back to pre-modernism [including primitive cultures] to find out how we can start again. For the past century we have factually already been living in a non-modernistic world. All products requiring electricity (including computers and the internet but also the A-bomb, laser, holographics,nanotechnology and so on) are based on quantum mechanics, which states that there is NO separation between matter and energy. Modernistic duality [and thus the other modernistic assumptions] has been proven wrong for the past century! However, we are still living with a modernistic mentality or mindset, which is the root cause of many of our current problems (particularly the climate change and the financial-economic system, i.e. political and social issues).

Modernism:
Control + exploitation of nature.
rationality---------------------------------------------] analytically,.
-- materialism, mechanism, dehumanisation------] causal,.
reductionism-----------------------------------------] and linear thinking.
hierarchy-------------------------].
--oa.racisme----------------------].
egocultus-------------------------] submission.
-- individualism, hedonism,----] +.
-- short-term thinking----------] categorization.
expansion------------------------].
colonialism, globalism-------].
idea of progress.
growth, property.

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