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“Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law, which is no less corrupt with private interests and its own forms of predation. In modernity sophism is the order of the day, and this obliges its most adept practitioners to learn how to develop the art of appearing to be other than one actually is.”

Art Philosophy Form Law Values Order Interest Modern Conscience Modernity Appearing Adept

Author:Kenny Smith

“Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.”

“America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.”

Stories America Wealth Dog Vulnerability Usual Tails Chasing Modernity

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.”

“Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.”

“For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.”

Behinds Christianity Violence Birth Despair West Alternatives Rejection Latter Modernity Nihilism Shattered Idolatry Antiquity Imposing Facade Enchanting Accomplices

Author:David Bentley Hart

“Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with a raunchy sexual reductionism, despairing scientism, morally normless cultural relativism, and self-assertive individualism. We remain resident aliens, OF the world but not profoundly in it, dining at the banquet table of waning modernity without a whisper of table grace. We all wear biblical name tags (Joseph, David, and Sarah), but have forgotten what our Christian names mean.”

“Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.”

Eye Style Unhappiness Modernity Epoch

Book:Towards a New Architecture

Source: Towards a New Architecture

“I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.”

Thinking Mean Book Fun Posts Really Mean Modernity Modernism Adjectives Frivolous Post Modernism

Author:Angela Carter

“The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.”

Would Be Certain Modern Movement Criticism Method Deny Critical Modernity

Book:Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism

Source: Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism

“Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.”

Creativity Groups New York Decided Organization Symbols Towers Reflecting Modernity

Author:Bernard Arnault

“Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.”

Children Reason Enlightenment Modernity

Book:Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline

Source: Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline

“To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.”

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“High-consequence risks form one particular segment of the generalised 'climate of risk' characteristic of late modernity - one characterised by regular shifts in knowledge-claims as mediated by expert systems.”

Form Risk Particular Late Consequence Claims Climate Experts Characteristics Modernity

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.”

Risk Climate Modernity

Book:Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

Source: Modernity and Self-identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age

“When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.”

People Thinking Facts Certain Levels Expression Tradition Letters Library Intervention Modernity Alphabet Alexandria Letters Of The Alphabet

Author:Alexander Kluge