Modernism

Horses and Other Herbivores. Modernist Traces and Disputed Identities in Contemporary Italian Art 1969-2010

by Michele Dantini

in: History and Theory, Bezalel, Issue No. 19. Future's Past:The Italian Futurism and its Influence, January 2011_versione italiana del saggio, Cavalli e altri erbivori. Orazioni moderniste e controverse identitarie @ http://www.doppiozero.com/materiali/saggi/cavalli-e-altri-erbivori

An unusually numerous population of horses, donkeys and zebras has crossed the plains of Italian art in the last... more An unusually numerous population of horses, donkeys and zebras has crossed the plains of Italian art in the last fifteen years, coinciding with a widespread (and perplexed) reflection on the characters and specificities of national art. In several ways - this is the thesis of the present essay - the population of herbivores epitomizes the debate over the “current relevance or non-relevance” of the avant-gardist model, and constitutes a sardonic metaphor of the journalistic debate on the Italian “decline,” dealt with extensively by the major national newspapers.

Joyce’s Use of Style in Ulysses to Convey the Complexity of Reality

by David Price

Seminar Paper

Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis as Sexual Sourcebook for Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness

by Heike Bauer

"Aidan Higgins," Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2003 Vol. XXIII, no. 3: 49-84.

by neil murphy

Visions of Jewish Modernism

by Barbara Mann

Revaluing Javanese Court Dances (Srimpi and Bedhaya) within the Current Social and Cultural Context

by Michi Tomioka

"The Work of the 2006/2007 API Fellows"  pp. 53-60.
The Nippon Foundation

Modernist Indexicality: The Language of Gender, Race, and Domesticity in Hebrew and Yiddish Modernism

by Allison Schachter

Bergelson and the Landscape of Yiddish Modernism

by Allison Schachter

Bryher, Havelock Ellis and the Adventure of Sex

by Jana Funke

Communal Modernisms. Ed. Emily Hinnov. (forthcoming with Palgrave, 2013)

The Flexible and the Pliant: Disturbed Organisms of Soviet Modernity

by Serguei Alex. Oushakine (Сергей Ушакин)

in Cultural Anthropology. Vol. 19, No. 3 (2004): 392–428.

(2011) Aspek sosial dan aspek simbolik pada kritik estetika sebagai Penanda Modernitas

by Undi Gunawan

catatan pendek, tidak dipublikasikan

Modernismo fra archivi e riviste: In margine ad alcune pubblicazioni recenti

by Roberto Alciati

Pubblicato in "Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni", 2011

Some recent publication about modernism give the opportunity to reflect upon the importance of two new research paths,... more Some recent publication about modernism give the opportunity to reflect upon the importance of two new research paths, which, for dif- ferent reasons, are now offered to people who study religion in Europe in Twenty century. The first is the opening of the Vatican archive; the second is the re-discovery of the cultural and political journals of the Thirties. Archives and journals represent undoubtedly two ways that still need to be walked for increases our knowledge of Christianity in Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries. However, as a new textual corpus, an appropriate methodological approach has to be well defined. Ar- chives and journals are complementary parts offered to the interna- tional scientific community and allow the study of modernism as a typi- cal European religious phenomenon.

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Mondriaan en De Stijl, nieuwe permanente tentoonstelling

by Tessel Bauduin

Bauduin, T.M. ‘Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: Mondriaan en De Stijl, nieuwe permanente tentoonstelling’. [exh.rev.] De Witte Raaf  26, 155 (2012): “Ondertussen” 8.

Soon also on dewitteraaf.be Soon also on dewitteraaf.be

'Fictions of the City' reviewed by Richard Hornsey

by Matthew Taunton

published in Textual Practice 26 (2), 2012

Para caer en el olvido: Henry-Russell Hitchcock y la arquitectura latinoamericana

by Patricio del Real

published in 'Block' no. 8, 2011

Configurable Culture: Mainstreaming the Remix, Remixing the Mainstream

by Aram Sinnreich

My 2007 doctoral dissertation from USC Annenberg.

This dissertation examines the emergence of new musical aesthetics and practices based around networked media... more This dissertation examines the emergence of new musical aesthetics and practices based around networked media technologies, from remix music to file sharing, and argues that these “configurable” technologies and practices compel us to
reexamine our assumptions about both cultural production and social organization. The research is multi-theoretical and multi-methodological, bringing together elements of cultural studies, social network analysis, personality psychology, art history, and musicology, and drawing data primarily from personal interviews with musicians, music industry executives, and attorneys, as well as self-reported attitudes about emerging cultural practices from a survey of 1,765 American adults.

I begin by reviewing the social history of musical regulation, and the resistance that this regulation has engendered. I also propose a mechanism by which musical aesthetics influence social organization, helping to explain the universality  of musical regulation and resistance across a broad range of social milieus. I argue that the dialectical tension between these opposing ethics has operated as a vital engine of aesthetic innovation. However, I argue, this process is bounded by a discursive framework that overdetermines our understanding of music’s role in society, and that both sustains and is sustained by dominant social institutions.

Next, I demonstrate that configurable technologies and practices undermine the discursive boundaries that have been in place for the past two centuries, which I term the “modern ontological framework.” I draw upon interview and survey data to explore the ways in which musicians, lawmakers, and everyday people are developing new ways to understand music and cultural production, as the definitional binaries underpinning the modern framework continue to erode into shades of gray.

Finally, I analyze these data in an effort to determine whether a new discourse based on configurability may be replacing the modern framework, and what such a discourse might entail in terms of social organization. I describe five principles: Configurable Collectivism, The Reunion of Labor, The Collision of Public and Private, The Shift from Linearity to Recursiveness, and The Emergence of DJ Consciousness. Their net effect, I argue, suggests a roadmap for the emergence of new social forms and institutions in the networked age.

Governing the Karimojong: Tradition, Modernity and Power in Contemporary Karamoja

by Karol Czuba

The complex gerontocratic governance system of the Karimojong, the largest ethnic group in Karamoja, was challenged in... more The complex gerontocratic governance system of the Karimojong, the largest ethnic group in Karamoja, was challenged in the second half of the twentieth century by the combined forces of the modernising Ugandan nation-state and undisciplined young men. The paper demonstrates that, although Karimojong power structures were substantially weakened during the period of great disequilibrium between the late 1970s and 2000s, recent years have seen their gradual reconstruction. Some traditional institutions have disappeared or declined, but the position of elders has been largely restored. Ekokwa, or an informal assembly, has partially integrated the state-imposed Local Council 1 structure and emerged as the new central political forum of the Karimojong. Karimojong culture remains in a state of flux and significant changes can be expected in the near future.

Benjaminian Reflections: History, Modernity & Poetry

by Rowan Tepper

The Dogma of Conviction (2009)

by David Raskin

Francis Halsell, Julia Jensen, and Tony O’Conner, eds., Rediscovering Aesthetics: Transdisciplinary voices from art history, philosophy, and art practice, pp. 66-74 and 286-288

“Revivalism, Modernism, and Internationalism: Finding the Old in the New India” in Anthony D’Costa, ed. A New India? London: Anthem Press, 2010, 151-78.

by Rebecca Brown