Sublime

“The world,” declared the poet Aleksandr Shevchenko in 1913, “has been transformed into a single, monstrous, fantastic, perpetually-moving machine, into a single huge non-animal, automatic organism … We, like some kind

What most of their projects had in common was an alarming obsession with social hygiene. In future, instead of lurking on streets and squares and alleys, the human beetle would be made to live in tower blocks, to commute by monorail or biplane or moving pavement, to scuttle about in allotted green space between the

They can apply to any setting in which a haphazard modernism is conflicting with the human experience.

These stories seek to move you from a state where you may be stuck within modernity’s cognitive, affective, and relational structures toward other possibilities, but they do not seek to determine the form or format of these possibilities for you.

his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.

2 POSTMODERNISM’S APPLIED TURN