Quotes About Modernity

I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

The world is very different today than it was in 1968.

They were groping for a modern order that allowed citizens to participate in the new economies of scale instead of being subject to them, one that offered more freedom of choice to more members of society. Theirs was a version of modernity based on grassroots cooperation, not zero-sum competition

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

Another definition of modernity: conversations can be more and more completely reconstructed with clips from other conversations taking place at the same time on the planet.

Ser modernos es vivir una vida de paradojas y contradicciones.

There was an air of luxury about the room, but it was the luxury of expert simplicity.

Part of the culture of modernity took shape around various affirmations that there could be individual gratification from emulating the impervious rhythms, efficiency, and dynamism of mechanization.

Modernity, contrary to its popular connotations, is not the world in a sweepingly transformed state. Rather, as some critics have shown, it is the hybrid and dissonant experience of living intermittently within modernized spaces and speeds, and yet simultaneously inhabiting the remnants of pre-capitalist life-world, whether social or natural.

Por ello, se propone reformular una ética, coherente dentro de la tradición filosófica islámica, que critique a la Modernidad europea, como expresión de la civilización occidental2.

la crisis ecológica inevitable causada por el capitalismo y la Modernidad17

Si una colonia, poscolonia, nación o cultura dependiente intenta seguir la misma ruta europea, nunca llegará a la Modernidad, sino a un aumento de su propia miseria y dependencia colonial.

The notion of the 'non-Jewish Jew', formulated by Isaac Deutscher in 1958 to outline the profile of the intellectual who breaks with his inherited religion and culture, has now become a metaphor for Jewish modernity. The most

frame Jewish modernity. After having been its cradle, Europe became its tomb and its heir.

born from the treaty of Versailles in the wake of the collapse of the empires. In these states, Jews embodied modernity and polarized the rejection of conservative forces. In France, they became the target of legitimists and nationalists opposed to the Third Republic; in Italy, of Catholics horrified by the Piedmont monarchy that had led the peninsular's unification; in Germany, of conservatives who sought to preserve the Christian character of the Prussian monarchy. After

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

The excessive speed of mundialization, the exacting demands of the God of consumerism and the to-and-fro swinging, from one period to another and from one domain to another, cause inner heartaches. People feel like individuals "with no sense of belonging" and characters "without qualities". ( "The church was no longer in the middle" )

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We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.

I believe that hundreds of years from now, history will be divided into pre-1960s and post-1960s.

Yet it was racial identity that became the paramount spatial mediation of modernity within the newly reunited nation. Not self-evidently more meaningful, not more real or natural than other markings, race nevertheless became the crucial means of ordering the newly enlarged meaning of America. This happened because former Confederates, a growing working class, embattled farmers, western settlers, a defensive northeastern elite, women's rights advocates, an

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.