#Advertising on the train for Suntory’s #beer The Premium Malt’s. Stylish monochrome photo of a pretty woman holding the can, which alone is in color: blue. The theme is renewal: “Today, I’m a new me.” Underneath is a warning against drinking underage.
#Modernity is rubbish.
enshittification of everything ![?] ... beautiful article!
#enshittification #art #modernity #instrumentalisation #philosophy
The understanding of the modern world is based on science and that understanding was built up, often at great cost, by overcoming myth and superstition. It is a giant leap backwards to cater to such superstitions in a misguided attempt to somehow pay back Indigenous peoples for historical wrongs. Students today had nothing to do with the sins of the past, and we owe it to them to teach them the best possible science we can. That means separating religious myths from science, and in the process actually trying to get the science straight. The B.C. science curriculum is a disgrace on both counts.
Treating Indigenous myths as somehow sacrosanct simply because they are Indigenous is not only patronising, it can fundamentally distort students’ understanding of how the world works. quillette.com/2026/03/26/t... By @lkrauss1.bsky.social
#enlightenment #modernity #science #education
Constantin Guys, Two Ladies Taking a Walk
Two Ladies Taking a Walk (19th century) by Constantin Guys.
Source: @metmuseum.org
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#abstract #modernity #illness #modernism #convalescence #movement #walking #paris #art #publicdomain
‘ #failure is the most defining (and original) #aesthetic characteristic of #literary #modernity’ h/t @kaffeehaus.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Amid institutional responses, real resistance is found in small acts of empathy, feeling, and solidarity that restore meaning and hope.
By Moavviz Siddiq Nizami
Read more: thefridaytimes.com/18-Mar-2026/...
#MentalHealth #Modernity #NoamChomsky #EducationCrisis #SocialCommentary
Modern life masks control as choice; students’ anguish becomes data, while true care lies in human connection beyond bureaucracy.
By Moavviz Siddiq Nizami
Read more: thefridaytimes.com/18-Mar-2026/...
#MentalHealth #Modernity #NoamChomsky #EducationCrisis #SocialCommentary
Quoting Noam Chomsky, this piece questions a system that manages pain but never addresses its roots.
By Moavviz Siddiq Nizami
Read more: www.thefridaytimes.com/18-Mar-2026/...
#MentalHealth #Modernity #NoamChomsky #EducationCrisis #SocialCommentary
What if the question is not whether civilizations clash, but whether they collapse? In Europe, we believed the catastrophes of the twentieth century had made us wiser, that we had entered an era beyond rupture. Yet the mood of our time is not renewal but coarsening-an erosion of subtlety, nuance, and confidence in our institutions. Perhaps the collapse has already occurred, and we are only now emerging from denial. The unease of our age may not be accident, but consequence
In his latest book, La part sauvage, and in conversations surrounding it, Marc Weitzmann ventures something at once excessive and exact: that Europe has not recovered from its suicide. Not from the number of its dead, but from the act itself. A continent that destroyed itself between 1914 and 1945, and at its heart exterminated its Jews, does not simply resume life. It may consume, rebuild, legislate, celebrate. But one does not recover from suicide. The Cold War froze the corpse. The 196os adorned it with abundance. The fall of the Berlin Wall was not rebirth; it was thaw. And what thaws reveals.
The Jew becomes the visible crack in the universal mirror. Repair the mirror, whispers the temptation, by erasing the crack. How does one recover from such suicides? One does not return from suicide. One lives with it. Europe lives with it. The United Nations lives with it. Even our vocabulary lives with it. The Shoah was not only the destruction of six million Jews. It was the rupture of Europe's moral architecture. Resolution 3379 was not merely a vote. It was the moment an institution founded to prevent annihilation inverted its own promise and survived the inversion. Survival is not the same as being alive. We may still receive the light. We may still celebrate constitutions, charters, and anniversaries, pronounce the words "human dignity," "equality," "fraternity." But if the star has died, the light that reaches us is only delay. Civilizations do not collapse in a single night. They dim. They hollow. They begin to trade principle for advantage, covenant for contract, universality for transaction. Multilateralism thins into bargaining. Language stiffens into formula. Trust drains quietly from the room long before anyone admits it has left.
Each time the universal feels threatened, it searches for the exception. Each time it fears fragmentation, it is tempted to isolate the fragment. Each time it dreams of becoming whole, it risks turning against the one who reminds it that wholeness is illusion. There is an added irony. The universal languages through which Europe has understood itself-law, covenant, moral responsibility, the dignity of the person-are deeply intertwined with Jewish sources. To isolate the Jew as anomaly is not merely to exclude a minority; it is to loosen a thread woven into the fabric of the civilization itself. When that thread is despised or cut, the fabric does not remain intact. It frays. It thins. It begins, slowly, to unravel. The Jew stands there-not as enemy, not as rival, but as reminder. Reminder that the whole is never seamless. That truth is never total. That the universal must live with its cracks. Erase the crack, and the mirror shatters. Perhaps that is what suicide finally is: the refusal to live with the fact that the whole is never complete. If there is a way back, it begins not with grand declarations but with restraint, with the modest acceptance that universality cannot demand fusion, that fraternity cannot require uniformity, that justice cannot be purchased by exception.
Jew-hatred builds itself as both fear of the all and dream of the all. It fears that humanity cannot become one while something resists absorption. It dreams of a reconciled totality—once the exception is neutralized. f4cd.substack.com/p/the-suicid... By Grégory Lafitte #antisemitism #modernity
“Though a disciple and eventual leader of the famed #FrankfurtSchool of critical social theory, Mr. #Habermas had more faith in the promise of #modernity than mentors like #TheodorAdorno and #MaxHorkheimer”
I thought maybe somebody would do that.
#modernity
🎁 “And often they make the IVR” really difficult to get through, so you get frustrated and go online.”
"She described working with one government agency that programmed its IVR to simply hang up on people who’d been on hold for a certain amount of time." Try using the CVS IVR!
#sludge #modernity
Available tours for the Int'l Docomomo conference include Gregory Ain Mar Vista Tract Open House,
Mar 17–22: International #Docomomo conference in Los Angeles -> www.docomomo2026.com
▪️ Thom Mayne & Frances Anderton opening keynote: www.docomomo2026.com/special-even...
▪️ Available tours: www.docomomo2026.com/tours
(live streaming available for some sessions) #modernity #architectural #modernism
Capitalism rewards saleability, compliance, stamina, inheritance, and the ability to endure long periods of spiritual self-betrayal without becoming visibly troublesome.
philosophics.blog/2026/03/08/c...
#philosophy #capitalism #labour #art #employment #artists #culture #modernity #creativity #blog
I've recently read "Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany" by Harald Jähner.
Specialists with a good knowledge of the political history of interwar Germany will probably agree with the criticisms of leading historian Richard Evans in his 29/11/ 24 TLS review, in […]
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#52booksin52weeks 50. Set in a Castle - I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith ##ComingOfAge #poverty #romanticism #romance #nature #freedom #history #Modernity #youngadulthood #1930s #booksbooksbooks #bookstagram #booktok #booksky #ttrpgpodcast #gamemastersbookclub www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc
Rory King – Gumsucker (signed!)
“Being in nature is extremely important for me. I think it’s important for everybody, but for me it’s a source of inspiration and comfort.” – Rory King
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#RoryKing #Gumsucker #CharcoalPress #Australia #modernity #booksky #artsky
Cover for Manent’s "Challenging Modern Atheism and Indifference." The full title appears on top, and the author, translator, and foreword author’s names appear below. At center is a small, lit steeple church on a hill at night. To right of book is a landscape image with quote: "'A gift of the highest value to all those who ponder what it means to be human.' --Ralph C. Hancock"
"An erudite yet charming reminder to his fellow countrymen to reread #Pascal... Manent has offered this book to the world at an axial time in the religious history of his country." ~Public Discourse #Christianity #Atheism #Modernity
Read this review: www.thepublicdiscour...
Ingressi di gallerie sormontate da strati di ere geologiche; visibili i segni del mare che mostrano una texture stratificata della collina. Un contrasto suggestivo.
La stratificazione come memoria del mondo.
Una danza tra plasticità moderna e tempo scolpito. Suggestivo.
Stratification as the world’s memory.
A dance between modern plasticity and sculpted time.
#Photography
#Landscape
#Time #Modernity #ScritturaDelTempo
#PhotoOfTheDay
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#Apocalypse #Berdyaev #Christianity #Contemplation #DepthPsychology #Disenchantment #Divine #Eschatology #FadiAbuDeeb #Faith #Future #Hope #Imagination #Kierkegaard #Literature #Modernity #NewCreation #OrthodoxChristianity #Personhood #Philosophy #Poetry #PoliticalEschatology #Prophetic (7/8)
In part 9 of 13 discussions with Claude about the parables of the two valleys, the topic is David Graeber (and Wenrow's) evolution of domination.
philosophics.blog/2026/02/28/c...
#philosophy #blog #podcast #graeber #critique #power # ##subjugation #contracts #Locke #modernity #freedom #control
New podcast talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty & empire from the #Alps to #Everest
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@profpitches.bsky.social @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social
New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@uio-oceh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social
New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@katie-r-ives.bsky.social @natalie-berry.com
New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@ukclimbing.com @cmountainstudies.bsky.social
New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@dollyjorgensen.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net
New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest.
shorturl.at/oI5fh
@waymarks.bsky.social @calmandfearless.bsky.social
New podcast! Talking with @peterhhansen.bsky.social sky.social about how #mountaineering & #modernity emerged together & how the idea of the 'summit position' came to encompass concepts of sovereignty and empire from the #Alps to #Everest shorturl.at/oI5fh #EnvHist #EnvHums
@nichecanada.bsky.social
