Re: [-empyre-] Is Modernity our Antiquity? - introductory comments

["Lucio Agra" <lucioagra@gmail.com>]

Yes, Thomas, maybe... But I was not thinking about contemporaneity as
a word to express this "I-do-not-know-what" we are leaving in... My
idea was to really suggest that this word
(contemporary/contemporaneity) could be a better name for what we - in
70's/80's, having no label to use - called post-modernism. The
question is really complex because the predominant point of view about
p.m. tried to oppose it to modernism whereas giving to it so great
importance that anything that comes after is simply "post".
I think that the name may serve as an uncertain way of qualify the
situation. But I think it was back some years ago.
best
Lucio BR

On 3/2/06, Thomas Schmidt <thomas@criticalsecret.com> wrote:
> Hello List,
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> This is my first post on the list, so i'll start by introducing myself. My
> name is Thomas and I'm a graphic-designer based in Paris, so, please excuse
> my English.
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> Le 2/03/06 5:40, «Christina McPhee» <christina112@earthlink.net> a écrit:
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> > I've been sustaining - as a rather
> > personal point o view - that what separates modernity to
> > contemporaneity has to do with a kind of gap, established 'round the
> > 80's when something great was expected but never happened
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> Doesn't it seem that the relationship we have to those words, modernity and
> contemporaneity, is of a completely different nature?
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> Modernity, as an art period (whether or not it has come to an end, which is
> beyond my reasoning) can be thought of as bounded to the external
> socio-technological factors of its time, such as the great technological
> discoveries of the late 19th century, marxism etc., whereas contemporaneity
> can only be related to our own self, in that contemporaneity, for a lack of
> proper wording "travels" with us.
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> Best,
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> Thomas.
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