Tag: supermodernity

• Fragmentary, No. 14

  In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method…

  • R L • powell

  January 4, 2017

  Books, Fragments, Impensive, Introductions

  Ballard, Crash, dream, fantasy, hypermodernity, J. G. Ballard, Modernity, reality, supermodernity, urban life, urban sprawl

• Fragmentary, No. 12

  What is new is not that the world lacks meaning, or has little meaning, or less than it used to have; it is that we seem to feel an explicit and intense daily need to give it meaning: to give meaning to the world, not just some village or lineage. This need to give meaning…

  • R L • powell

  November 16, 2016

  Fragments, Impensive, Reading

  Agué, contemporary life, information, information overload, meaning, supermodernity, the modern