Modernism

  • Exterminate All The Brutes

    What to do about the rising tide of human population? It’s quite simple, really. Here’s a neat solution, to be applied in a Utopian future republic: Procreation is the triumph of the living being over death; and in the case of man, who adds mind to his body, it is not only in his child…

  • Constellation of Genius

     The footnotes – and there are plenty of them – in Kevin Jackson’s brilliant account of Modernism in 1922 are printed in a fetching purplish shade. I wondered, as I read, enthralled, whether this was a subliminal allusion to Eliot’s phrase from The Waste Land,  when Tiresias observes the assault by the  clerk on the…