This edited collection examines alternative or entangled modernities as competitive narratives that blend ethics, aesthetics, and critical thinking to depict the human condition. It includes chapters ...covering the rivalry between scientific and aesthetic revolutions; contemporary trends in postmodernity; and study-cases on visual arts and cinema. The collection applies a philosophical view of visual arts and cinema, and competitive narratives of (post)modernity that arise from ethics and aesthetics as complementary fields. Key audiences for the book are students, PhD candidates, and scholars from the field of philosophy, aesthetics and cultural studies. This volume emerges from contributions held at the International Conference Rethinking Modernity: Transitions and Challenges, organized by the Research Center for the History and Circulation of Philosophical Ideas of the University of Bucharest.
"The twin houses of San Martino di Castrozza constitute the beginning of an activity
that led Bruno Morassutti to engage with the Alpine theme throughout his activity:
at the beginning there were the ...two small, twin houses (1954-1957), then he moved
on to a large family holiday home (1957-1958), both with Angelo Mangiarotti, and
then he experimented with the “Fontanelle” in the 1960s. The traditional stylistic
features in the houses of San Martino find a balance, a grace and an elegance that,
over sixty years later, do not cease to convince. The restoration of San Martino is
measured in a balanced relationship between empty and full, in continuity with the
elements that characterize the alpine architecture and the wise use of the materials
offered by the territory: wood and stone. The two buildings, identical but individually
distinct, thanks to two simple movements of flanking and staggering, are characterized
by a solid stone masonry that draws two L-shaped walls. The masonry, strongly
anchored to the ground, is counterbalanced towards the valley by a large window
in wood and glass that spreads over two levels and guarantees lighting and direct
views of the surrounding landscape from the living area. The link with the rural architecture of the area is well summarized, in addition to the materials, by the typologically relevant elements including the traditional symmetrical pitched roof with
the structural warp in fir trunks. The roof, detached from the perimeter walls, is supported by wooden columns and partitions, a refined compositional choice that generates an unusual glass surface."
"As an exponent of that “Tyrolean” generation of architects that in the Germanspeaking
central-eastern Alps will be decisive in the specific declination of the
themes of architectural modernity ...within the mountain context, Lois Welzenbacher
realizes, between the end of the 1920s and the beginning of the 1930s, a series of
houses and villas that reinvent the relationship between architecture and Alpine environment
in completely new and inaugural terms. The Buchroithner house built in
1928-30 in Zell am See, the Rosenbauer house built in 1929-30 in Linz, and the Buchroithner house built in 1932 again in Zell am See establish a new way of relating
to the space and to the Alpine landscape: they incorporate the mountain landscape,
and at the same time they transform and change in relation to the topographic morphology of the site, giving life to an architecture that builds a relational dialectic with its surroundings in a completely new way. In this respect, the works of Lois Welzenbacher represent a decisive threshold in the conceptualization of the construction
in the Alps."
The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Kenya, inaugurated in 2017, has been promoted by the Kenyan government as a promise of “development” and “prospering people.” This paper demonstrates how, contrary ...to these narratives, the SGR reiterates the pre‐existing relations of difference mediated by class, geography, and ethnicity. Focusing on material and semiotic forms of the SGR infrastructures, it specifically shows how the railway project functions as the techno‐politics of differentiation that governs by including “prospering publics” of urban middle classes into Kenya's modernist development vision, providing unstable hopes for “development” to more precarious peri‐urban and rural “anticipating populations,” but simultaneously constituting “excluded populations” in rural landscapes that are denied the possibility of being a part of the national modernist development vision. Highlighting this intimate relationship between infrastructure, governance, and biopolitics, the paper demonstrates that mega‐infrastructures – differentiating between the publics included in, and the populations excluded from, the state's development visions and practices, as well as unstable subjective dispositions in‐between – engender modalities of non‐belonging that fall outside of (inherently liberal) frames of “citizenship” or a “public” frequently employed in critical infrastructure scholarship.
This paper demonstrates how, contrary to the state's narratives of “development” that accompany mega‐infrastructures, these projects reiterate the pre‐existing relations of difference mediated by class, geography, and ethnicity. Focusing on railway infrastructures in Kenya, this paper specifically shows how they function as the techno‐politics of differentiation that governs by differentiating between the publics included in, and the populations excluded from, the state's development visions and practices, as well as unstable subjective dispositions in‐between. Highlighting this intimate relationship between infrastructure, governance, and biopolitics, the paper demonstrates that mega‐infrastructures engender modalities of non‐belonging that fall outside of (inherently liberal) frames of “citizenship” or a “public” frequently employed in critical infrastructure scholarship.
Štúdia má dve časti. V prvej sa autor sústreďuje na získanie metodologických nástrojov, ktoré umožnia postaviť voči racionalistickému modernistickému konštruktu dejín ako „zákonitého vývoja“, v ...ktorom sa stráca ľudské indivídum a jeho životná jedinečnosť, koncept, orientovaný práve na odkrytie a zvýraznenie životnej jedinečnosti existencie. Takýmto nástrojom sa pre autora stal „princíp autenticity“ Alessandra Ferrara a snaha o rozvinutie „projektu moderny“, ktorú prezentuje Miroslav Petříček. Využitím tohto metodologického inštrumentária je druhá časť štúdie orientovaná na identifikáciu poetiky prezencie (ako modality poetiky udalosti), ktorou sa „ukazovali“ aktivity subkultúr v priestore československej kultúry po roku 1948.
The construction of the modernist rural landscape in Portugal bears the mark of the
Junta de Colonização Interna
, an institution created in 1936 during the Salazar regime within the Ministry of ...Agriculture. The colonies which were actually completed and whose original structures remain until today are regarded as singular experiences that, having assumed the assumptions of modernity, have sought to establish continuity with certain aspects of landscape and vernacular architecture. This research aims to test the methodology proposed for the analysis of the physical legacies of these colonies, applying it on the Agricultural Colony of
Boalhosa
. The methodology combines GIS and mapping analysis, covering several layers of information embarking natural and anthropogenic spatial data, which allow understanding the landscape transformation since the settlement of the colony. From the reading of the landscape structure of this colony, it was verified that these legacies were accomplished through the use of an autonomous design methodology, which considers the local culture and respects both the morphological and physiographic characteristics of the existing site, leading to the creation of modern landscapes strongly tied to the local identities.
In the article, the authors provide an assessment of the modernism art, cultivated for decades, in terms of the possibilities of its social and ideological influence. It is argued that the ...ideologists of the bourgeoisie had to admit that Western art culture was at an impasse. The article analyzes the works of philosophers and artists, such as: Lenin, Schwartz, Nietzsche, Brooke, Leist, Meyer, Reed, Bergson, Lauterbach, Huxley, Weir, etc. Among the many concepts - the theory of "cultural circles", "cultural lag" and "cultural traditions"; Theory of Art Evolution - Professor Munroe; theory of social and cultural dynamics P. Sorokin and others. However, none of these theories could put forward any significant, practically effective ideas that could breathe life into bourgeois art. Summing up the results of more than half a century of the modernism art, we can say that it did not enrich the artistic culture. Starting with contrasting itself with traditional art in a philosophical, theoretical and aesthetic sense, modernism fell outside the scope of art itself due to the absurdity of its practice. The authors believe that in search of a way out of the impasse, bourgeois scholars could not escape from "anti-realism" and art was against the individual. The path traveled by modernist art proves the futility of bourgeois art culture in the first half of the twentieth century, but does not deny its revival in the XXI century.
Bireyi, tüm inanç biçimlerinin ötesinde, ait olduğu toplumsal bütünlük dâhilinde güçlü kılan bir bilinç biçimi olarak “öz yeterlik bilinci”, tarihsel izlekte “vesayet demokrasisinin” ötesine geçmenin ...başarılması ile mümkündür. Öte yandan söz konusu bilinç, bu başarıyla birlikte, yurttaş bireyin kararlarını fiili olarak almakla kalmayıp, bu kararları almaya yetkili olduğu bilinci ve güvenine sahip olmasıyla; “tanıdık bildik olan”ı kendine, kendini ise “tanıdık bildik olan”a ait, güvende ve muvaffak hissetmesiyle mümkündür. Bu düşünce düzleminden hareketle çalışma, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndan Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ne uzanan tarihsel kesitte, meşru ve sivil yönetime müdahale biçiminde ortaya çıkan “darbe” pratiklerini toplum nezdinde mümkün kılan psikolojik ve sosyolojik zemini algılama amacına yönelik bir okuma denemesidir. Bu amaca ilişkin olarak, ilgili metinde, “Türk modernleşmesi”, toplum sözleşmesinin tarafı olan ülke yurttaşlarının hak ve özgürlükleri ile kaygı halinin karşısında güven duygusu sağlamlaştırılmış birer birey olma gücünü içselleştirmelerinin önündeki engeller olarak, “tekinsizlik”, “vesayet sistemi”, “öz yeterlik bilinci”, “self oryantalist modernleşme” ve “obskürantizm” kavramları üzerinden hermenötize edilmiştir.
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