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The Off-Modern Mirror
Svetlana Boym
History Out of Synch
The twentieth century began with futuristic utopias and dreams of unending development and ended with nostalgia and quests for restoration. The twenty-first century cannot seek refuge in either. There is something preposterous in our contemporary moment of postindustrial economic crisis and preindustrial cultural conflict. I see in it not a conflict between modern and anti-modern, or a pure “clash of civilizations,” but rather as a clash of eccentric modernities…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2010
Category
Modernism, Contemporary Art, Technology
Subjects
Evolution, Geography