The coloniality of modernity
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It was around the 1430s that the term ‘modern’ was used in southern Europe’s Romance languages to show the past in poor light and congratulate the present. As for English, Scottish poet William Dunbar is credited for using it first in his poems wherein the word was used to show the present in positive light while remaining tight-lipped about the past.
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