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Ingrid Hoeben Ⓥ 🇧🇪

Jacques Tati’s “Playtime” is a playful visual treatise on modernity portraying the innate incompatibility between human nature and the Modernist expectations of behavior in space. Almost completely devoid of dialogue, shot on a massive set located near Paris known as Tativille, the film dissects Modernist architecture through one of its epitomes: the office building.

#architecture #jacquestati #modernity #spaces #offices #buildings #tativille

architizer.com/blog/inspiratio

Journal · A Brief Guide to Modern Office Architecture Through the Movies - Architizer JournalThe following six films offer a unique glimpse of the birth of the modern office space and prophesize its inevitable disappearance.
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Amalgam

I want to learn more about modernism and modernity as a cultural movement. It feels like so much of what’s going on right now is about pushing and pulling against modernism.

Do you have any book recommendations? Articles? Anything is welcome

#modernism#modernity#theory
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N-gated Hacker News

Oh, look! A San Francisco has discovered and its medieval citizenship laws! 🏰👏 Because, clearly, we should all take lessons on from the continent that once thought leeches were the height of medical innovation. 🐍 Maybe next time, they'll explain why we should adopt Europe's approach to -time too. ☕️
asanfranciscan.substack.com/p/

A San Franciscan's Substack · Europe is a Cautionary Tale on Birthright CitizenshipBy Chema Hernández Gil
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BellingenNSW

Rethinking the narrative of progress - ‘doing loss’ in present society

How can Western modernity come to grips with loss if its promise of progress has been stripped of its credibility? Andreas Reckwitz, 2023:

"The losses — both those already experienced and those anticipated in the future — can no longer be rendered invisible so easily; they are growing in numbers, and the attention paid to them is growing, too."

"In late modernity, we thus see both an escalation of loss and a growing awareness of loss: from climate change to the losers of modernization, from collective traumata to regressions... the present-day political field turns out to be an explosive experimental space for dealing with negative events."

"The promise is no longer about progress but about the illusion of regaining what has been lost:
To face the truth with open eyes and make loss, the experienced and the anticipated a legitimate and crucial topic of debate does not necessarily weaken democracy but could strengthen it."
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Andreas Reckwitz, The Challenge of Loss , LA Review of Books, 2023
lareviewofbooks.org/short-take
#progress #TheWest #modernity #loss #experiences #consumption #more #expectations #nostalgia #anger #deindustrialisation #environment #EcoGrief #DoingLoss #PublicHealth #ClimateBreakdown #extinction #trauma #violence #populism #TruthTelling #democracy #stability

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Mark Carrigan

Digital elites and reactionary modernism

From Wikipedia:

Reactionary modernism is a term first coined by Jeffrey Herf[1] in the 1980s to describe the mixture of “great enthusiasm for modern technology with a rejection of the Enlightenment and the values and institutions of liberal democracy” that was characteristic of the German Conservative Revolutionary movement and Nazism.[2] In turn, this ideology of reactionary modernism was closely linked to the original, positive view of the Sonderweg, which saw Germany as the great Central European power, neither of the West nor of the East.

From John Ganz on this Peter Thiel op-ed:

When Thiel writes about a “war on the internet” and “the internet” that had “begun our liberation,” the natural assumption is to assume that he’s speaking figuratively, that this is a metonym or synecdoche meaning “people on the internet.” But let’s say he’s being literal: for Thiel, the internet is a subject, it is doing something and the machines, The Big Machine has agency—it is “agentic,” as the tech people like to say. This is the viewpoint of the “Dark Enlightenment” and “neo-reaction,” which forms part of Thiel’s intellectual milieu. The belief is that a technological singularity is coming and the elect must work to accelerate it. The state must organize itself like an enterprise for this work to be completed. Progress, which is hampered by democracy, must have an authoritarian state to continue unabated. This is, of course, reactionary modernism: a belief in technological advances without the sentimental baggage of the Enlightenment.

https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/reading-thiels-op-ed

en.wikipedia.orgJeffrey Herf - Wikipedia
#accelerationism#digitalElites#modernism
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Dale Hagglund

@gerrymcgovern I think you might find it interesting to check out the first video (or however many catch your interest) of this playlist on "Metastatic Modernity" by Dr Tom Murphy of UCSD.

Murphy has been writing on energy, economy, modernity, and their intersection with planetary limits for quite a while at his Do The Math blog, and although that started in a pretty standard "green tech" position, as he started to look at things from a deeper, and rather darker, perspective which in 2021 he turned into an e-textbook _Energy and Human Ambition on a Finite Planet_.

Anyway, sorry for dropping in from nowhere.

#climate #modernity #DoTheMath #overshoot #LimitsToGrowth #sustainability

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvU

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squid

Just got a double edged razor to shave with. I don't like the capitalist techniques of extraction like the inflated proprietary replacement heads for some shitty handle with a plastic mechanism doomed to break. Same for printer inks, home pod coffee machines etc etc.

Anyway its sometimes good to reject the bad part of modernity.

#shaving#menshealth#throwaway
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