... the present era from the previous one, which was labeled "antiquity" (Baldwin, par. 5). Various aspects of an era can be considered modern, including architecture. An example of modern architecture can be seen in New York at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. The walls of the center are covered with black glass, attached to steel beams. The entire outside of the building looks futuristic, with a repeated design of black cubes, in various shapes and sizes. Fundamentally, according to Sarup, modernity is the "progressive economic and administrative rationalization and differentiation of the social world" (Murphy, par. 2). By creating order out of chaos, society would function better as a whole (Baldwin, par. 10). Globalization is an example of modernity. It seems to be unifying the world, but on an ordered and restricted basis. Globalization unifies money markets, speculative financial flows, information, and the organization of production. However, while the ...

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