He also finds Gellner undermines himself by deploying a Weberian framework but using Marx’s terminology yet rejecting Marx’s critique of capitalism. Assessing the plausibility of the authors’ theories, he criticizes Gellner’s teleology: Gellner argues nationalism is a consequence of industrialization, leaving himself flat-footed when facing counterexamples, particularly anticolonial nationalism. Gavin Kitching’s review reads Gellner and Anderson in light of Marx’s critique of nationalism as false consciousness. This review of reviews examines four earlier comparative reviews of IC with a more recent retrospective to examine how Anderson’s book has been read in the light of his peers. Consequently, many reviews of IC were comparative. Among the most important of these works were Ernest Gellner’s Nations and Nationalism and studies by Anthony Smith, John Breuilly, and others. By exhibiting their works, it creates a platform for the audience to discuss and develop the possibilities of innovative and sustainable solutions.In the introduction to the second edition of Imagined Communities ( IC), Benedict Anderson notes the book was published alongside similar studies appearing more or less concurrently, plus additional monographs published over the next few years. Each of the artists talked about different aspects from the groups but at the same time forms a general theme that elevates the feature of the community. Co-designed and co-created by 6 artists: Sizuo Chen, Went Ian, Linlu Zhang, Sicheng Wang, Zhuanxu Xu and Keno Tung & Yiding Zhang.
Jean-Luc Nancy stated that even we are in the same community, our own individual characteristic remains and the peculiarity from each of us makes the group resilient. From the mixed media of artworks we have selected, it formed a metaphor of the diversity within the community. The show named ‘Imagined Communities’ integrated the idea from McMillian and Chavis which provides an opportunity to examine 17 artworks with a shared approach on expressing fundamental issues such as self-realization, human consciousness and identity through Photography, Paintings and Moving Image. In this sense, created the strongest cohesion among communities. From the point of view of the shared emotional and ideological connection between communities, the same values and identities recognition creates a bonding between one and other. According to McMllian and Chavis, there are four elements of ‘sense of community’: membership, influence, integration and fulfilment of needs, and shared emotional connection.
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