Was modernism a mistake?

it was a necessity that responded perfectly to the social, historical, and theoretical concerns of the time. the real mistake was the industrial revolution

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No.

SPEED, MACHINERY, VIOLENCE, YOUTH AND INDUSTRY.

>>1774896
>Was modernism a mistake?
yes, t. postmodernism

Do you mean aesthetic modernism (20th century) or political modernism (18th century)?

Honestly, no.

>>1774911
How do soulless cement hives of passive urban worker drones fulfill that vision?

I'd say that they 16th and 17th centuries embody the whole "live fast, die young" spirit of adventurousness far better than the 20th century did.

>>1774952
He's mistaking modernism for Futurism, to which I hypocriticaly adhere in my poems.

>>1774956
Futurism is modernist, but not all modernism is futurist.

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>>1774896
>modernism
>isn't modern

>>1774911
futurism is garbage

>>1774911
A E S T H E T I C

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>>1775283

>>1774911
I never got the whole "violence" thing

Like where the fuck did that come from?

>>1774896
Everything was a mistake.

>was the idea that we should design things to be as soulless and ugly as possible a mistake?

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http://mashable.com/2015/07/20/original-penn-station/

>>1777052
I want to see more.