Abstract
Modernity is besieged. As democracy, as creativity, and as cosmopolitan hope it is pitted against a moribund system of formal politics and its numbing representational codes, against the corrosive values of economic rationality and the abjection of post-industrial urban life. The persistence of fascism and the widespread mimicry of its styles constitute only the most alarming sign that modernity’s best culture is assailed from all sides by political movements and technological forces that are working toward the erasure of ethical considerations and the deadening of aesthetic sensibilities. The resurgent power of racist and racializing language, of raciology, is a strong link between the perils of our own dangerous time and the enduring eÚ ects of the past horrors that continue to haunt us in Europe. Modernity is on trial and fascism is on hold. (p.93)
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 104-108 |
| Journal | Parallax |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2002 |