This book is about ideas humans formulated, in order to understand the world. The systems we create inherit characteristics and imperfections of our nature. The views portrayed in this piece don’t converge to right, or wrong, but carry different perspectives that might help completing a bigger picture. Eventually, you decide to take your stance, which could also be not to take any.
Have we indeed reached the end of History?
The End examines the question whether a linear process exists in the evolution of political systems, and whether its final stage has been reached in the form of liberal democracy.
This project revisits the revolutionary question posed in “The End of History?,” an article written by Francis Fukuyama, in the winter of 1988, shortly before the wall came down. The piece marks the end of a significant chapter in human history and has become an important milestone in political science. It also started an ongoing dialogue, which now, many years later, raises more questions to revisit and reflect on..
Each the poster highlights a major source of conflict between: political structures (monarchy–people’s republic), political ideologies (communism, liberalism), civilizational identities.
This interactive timeline gives a snapshot of major historical events of different point in time and space. The projection changes depending on the sphere (each symbolizing a year) that the viewer engages with.
