3. Modernity, Modernisation, Modernism and the First World War 3.

It is a most important ask of information science to develop a theoretical framework, and a book such as this one, which provides critical analyses of current perspectives, is a most welcome contribution. It deserves erious discussion, which I shall initiate in this review. This book is organized in ten chapters (in addition to front matters and end matters): (i) The meaning of information. (2)...

The study of Modernism has often been divided by a seemingly unbridgeable gap between what has been deemed " high " art, esoteric works intended for the privileged few, and " low " culture-works intended for the groveling masses. In the first category are traditional art forms such as painting, sculpture, and literature. The lower art forms include mass-produced works that are accessible by des...

This paper conceptualises an East European type of populism that I call post-peasant. It originated in state-socialist modernisation and mobilises people who are not peasants, but nevertheless value the countryside as morally superior to a life large cities. My major contention is post-peasant emerges under specific cultural-economic conditions, among which institution ‘post-peasant house’ para...

03 "Monumentality," she vmtes, "creates the sense of social cohesion that is central to the consolidation of a community by impressing upon people the importance and power of a thing or a person Central to this impression of social power is the sense of long-lastingness; the perception that this city, building, institution, or artwork—and the values it represents— will last through generations,...

Renaat Braem’s Arenawijk in Antwerp is a key example of Belgian post-war modernism, representing the development social housing as state-building enterprise. Considering building’s continuous use and current redevelopment, this paper explores expansion Belgium’s legal heritage protection, which based on values. Additional ‘intentional values’ would focus […]