Modernists


To the Lighthouse
Mrs. Dalloway
Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Great Gatsby
The Metamorphosis
Waiting for Godot
Orlando
Ulysses
The Sound and the Fury
As I Lay Dying
The Waste Land
Death in Venice
A Farewell to Arms
A Room of One’s Own
Jean Baudrillard
And yet what are the writings of Barthes, Lacan, Foucault (and even Althusser) but a philosophy of disappearance? The obliteration of the human, of ideology. The absent structure, the death of the subject, lack, aphanisis. They have died of these things and their deaths bear the characteristics of this inhuman configuration. They bear the mark of a Great Withdrawal, of a defection, of a calculated failure of will, of a calculated weakening of desire. They all became shrouded in silence towards t ...more
Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

Even staunch, black-leather modernists succumb to the lure of the Christmas season with selective touches of silver, gold, and, yes, glitter.
Terry Taylor, A Very Beaded Christmas: 45 Projects That Glitter, Twinkle & Shine

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