‘Reality is a creation of our excesses, of our disproportions and derangements’ E.M. Cioran   Modernity from a western perspective has been one of linear progress, as opposed to cyclic notions such as in the works of the Greek poet Hesiod, the Roman poet Ovid, and the Hindu Vedic yugas. Another popular historical narrative is what is known as the tripartite periodization of ancient, medieval, and modern. Within this largely western view of the three-part ages sits the notions of history either as continued progress or as waves of progress [...]