Notices by deilann [he/him] (deilann@tech.lgbt)

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Hmm my toots are far too serious today, need to mix it up

I'm going to blame modernism and white supremacy for that.

No, I won't apologize for redundancy

It's hard to define post modernism because it's arguably not a cohesive thing. It's just a collection of critiques against modernism, not all of which function together.

But critiquing modernism is death to fascism, as it is built on so much of it.

Hence why postmodernism is so often the far-right boogyman. Hilariously, they also complain about modern art ruining art in the same breath.

So we could call that postmodern.

I've been thinking a lot about modernism and the Enlightenment's role in shaping our world

A world where we take for granted that we are not only separate from nature, but deserve to master it. A world where we can measure human value quantitatively. A world where models should work. A world where the Greeks and Romans are foundational and Western civilization exists. A world where tradition automatically holds value and the past ought to guide our future. A world where beauty is only examined in human product.

Sometimes, I wonder what would have happened if Social Realism overcame moderism as the movement post Romanticism.

I blame the connections between the wealthy and the art world for this.

Why would they want to invest in paintings that showed the reality of poverty and the world the were creating for their tax evasion?

Pollack seems a much better bet.

I think it's hard to say our current climate change disaster wouldn't have happened under capitalism without modernism.

But I think it'd be naive to claim it didn't accelerate the process.

You can see even now the lib response to climate change is that we can just out tech it. We don't have to change - we just need to make new tech to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

We are the masters of the earth. The natural and artificial division exists. God gave us dominion over this planet.

@miramarco and just don’t contribute to Pinterest making so much of Google Images Search a walled garden at all