229 Quotes About Modernity

  • Author Jean Baudrillard
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    The stupidity of all commercial or cultural anti- Americanism. As if Americanism did not run through every society, every nation, and every individual today, like modernity itself.

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  • Author Neil Lewis
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    To engage with the world tactually is to situate oneself consciously in that world and to have a potentially unmediated relationship with it. Modernity, on the other hand, seeks to mediate our relationship with the world

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  • Author Neil Lewis
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    Life becomes easy in the metropolis because one is no longer at the helm, making decisions. No physical effort is required for we are now being carried by the modern tide … Mental and physical exertion has been superseded by an all-pervading passivity

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  • Author TS Eliot
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    When the Stranger says: ‘What is the meaning of this city?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?’What will you answer? ‘We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other’? or ‘This is a community’?And the Stranger will depart and return to the desert.

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  • Author Rupert Stasch
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    There is no such thing as ‘primitive’ people, except as created by other people’s primitivism. Primitivism is any cultural framework that typifies a set of others as incarnating an archaic condition of humanity radically different from the condition of the stereotypers themselves.

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  • Author Emile Habiby
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    We're used to the wonders of today. Why, if our forebears were to arise and hear the radio, see television, and witness a jumbo jet landing at an airport, spitting and roaring in the pitch-black night, they would think us polytheists for sure.

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  • Author Carlos Fuentes
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    Being modern is not a question of sacrificing the past in favour of the new, but of maintaining, comparing and remembering values we have created, making them modern, so as to not loose the value of the modern.

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  • Author Steven Erikson
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    Whatever we do as adults, we make in our children more of what we are. Is there no end to this? Scholars speak of progress, but I fear now that they are mistaken. This is not progress that we see, it is elaboration. Nothing of the old ways ever goes away, it just hides beneath modernity’s confusion.

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