Modernism: where we need to return or what we need to leave behind?

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
So, basically, the "modern" subject is the subject-under-surveillance, and what Virilio calls the 'industrialization of the image' is the product of both industrialization and "modern" urban planning...the earliest "modernist" was the flaneur, the walker through a city who was aware that his own image was industrialized, multiplied and captured everywhere, in the new urban industrial "city".

This is a pretty obvious point but as a counterpoint to the "we have never been modern" thesis about the modernist's inability to think time-relations except "historically" (and eurocentrically as/in terms of the "West"), it should get a little more interesting.

It also kind of fits into "paramodernism" insofar as paramodernism doesn't recognize the "postmodern" which I think is a term that has less and less credibility all the time...Latour definitely makes quick work of downplaying the minor distinction between "modernism" and "post-modernism"...
 
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version

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I'm a bit creeped out by how often Hodel, Man Ray and the Black Dahlia are coming up atm. I found this thread whilst looking up mentions of modernism and it's popped up once again on page four.
 

sus

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look, Peli Grietzer's "Towards a vulgar 'defense' of pure 'critiques'" is the best piece ever about modernist aesthetics and it's not even close
 
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