CLARCK, T.J., Farewell to an idea.
book deepest conviction, that already the modernist past is a
ruin, the logic of whose architecture we do not remotely grasp p.
2
it is just that the modernity which modernism prophesied has
finally arrived that the forms of representation that it originally
gave rise to are now unreadable p. 2
I want modernism to emerge as a distinctive patterning of mental
and technical possibilities p 7
Sobre el concepto de modernity p. 7-8...
Il I cannot have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer,
at least Capitalism remains my Satan (p. 8)
It is the blindness of Modernity that seems to me fundamental,
and to wich modernism is a response: the great fact, to go back to
Adam Smith's insight, is the hiddenness of the hidden hand; or
rather, the visibility of that hiddenness the availability to
individual consciousness of more and more information pointing to
the purposlessness of social action (p. 8)
