Social Constructionism & Literature

The Chimera of Progress ? 

Allan Irving

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“All you have to do is to think about Samuel Beckett : a mind so dark that it makes you wonder if the Renaissance really took place”  ….poet John Berryman

“And then a plank in Reason, broke…”   Emily Dickinson

In 1933-34 Chicago hosted a world’s fair with the title A Century of Progress International Exposition, with the theme of technological innovation.  Its motto was Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Adapts.  There were close to forty million ...