How Netflix's Arcane deconstructs the notion of historical progress

Who watches a steampunk dystopian Netflix series based on a MOBA and thinks, 'aha, Hegelian theory!' It's me, apparently.

[0:23] 'Making Of ARCANE - Best Of Behind The Scenes | League Of Legends | Netflix Original Series (2021)', Stream Wars, 2 Apr 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfTpb3DGe1M

[3:04] Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen, 'We Need a New Science of Progress', The Atlantic, 30 Jul 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/

[5:24] Georg Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, vol. 1, 1832

[8:11] 'Dresden Bombed To Atoms: World War II (1945) | British Pathé,' British Pathe, 13 Apr 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh-KWJWRjcI

[4:08] Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier, 'Reading of Voltaire's L'Orphelin de la Chine, in the salon of Madame Geoffrin', 1812, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salon_de_Madame_Geoffrin.jpg

[4:13] Eugène Delacroix, 'Lady Liberty Leading the People, 1830, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Le_28_Juillet._La_Libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg

John Trumbull, 'Declaration of Independence', 1819, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix_-_Le_28_Juillet._La_Libert%C3%A9_guidant_le_peuple.jpg

[4:18] 'The Third Estate carrying the Clergy and the Nobility on its back', 1789, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Troisordres.jpg

[4:22] Jacques Louis David, 'The Tennis Court Oath', c. 1790s, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serment_du_Jeu_de_Paume_-_Jacques-Louis_David.jpg

[4:35] Pieter Bruegel, 'The Triumph of Death', c. 1562, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Triumph_of_Death_by_Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder.jpg

[4:58] Theobald von Oer, 'Courtyard of Muses', 1860, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oer-Weimarer_Musenhof.jpg

[5:36] Jean-Victor Schnetz, 'The Battle for Town Hall', 1830, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R%C3%A9volution_de_1830_-Combat_devant_l%27h%C3%B4tel_de_ville-_28.07.1830.jpg

[6:00] 'The Third Estate carrying on her back the Second Estate and the First Estate', 1789, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:French_Revolution_-_Der_gro%C3%9Fe_Missstand.png

Jacques Louis David, 'Death of Marat', 1793, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Death_of_Marat_by_David.jpg

[7:08] 'Father Thames Introducing his Offspring to the Fair City of London', Punch, London, 1858, British Library, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/father-thames-introducing-his-offspring-to-the-fair-city-of-london-from-punch

[7:46] E O Higgins, 'The Edwardian World of Tomorrow', Unbound, 22 Aug 2012, https://unbound.com/books/conversations-with-spirits/updates/the-edwardian-world-of-the-tomorrow