A Metarealist Tale About the Supersumption of Modernity

Yves CITTON
A Metarealist Tale About the Supersumption of Modernity
Institution: 
Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis
Author's email: 
yves.citton@gmail.com
Abstract: 

Can there be a “resumption” of modernity? After Jürgen Habermas famously qualified modernity as an “unfinished project”, after Jean-François Lyotard declared it “liquidated”, should we now attempt to “go back” to it? 1 Obviously not. Even if some of us estimated such a resumption  was  desirable, there is no going back in historical times. Always forward—towards a glorious future or closer to the cliff — but always forward. Here is a tale about future reckonings of Bruno Latour’s AIME project.

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