So you are dividing the world into a classical and modern/postmodern halves. When does your modernism start? What triggers it? Is it the Avant Guards of the l

So you are dividing the world into a classical and modern/postmodern halves. When does your modernism start? What triggers it? Is it the Avant Guards of the late teens and 20's, unleashed by the horrors of the WW1? Is it the loosening of realism by the Impressionists in the 1880's set free by the early widespread use of photography? Or is it earlier with Gothic Churches, whose vast open spaces were structurally freed by architectural innovations like external flying buttresses, that allowed the insides to be illuminated by massive stained glass windows colored in new pallets by minerals imported from Asia and Africa? Or do we start your modernism all the way back in 1420 and Brunelleschi's development of linear perspective? It was only in this time that the Classical Era was first defined as such -- retroactively, rediscovered thanks primarily due to its preservation by Islamic scholars over preceding centuries. The forces of technological change, war, trade, and migration have always been at work. They were in Greece in 300BC when those Classical texts were originally written, in Constantinople during the sacking 4th Crusade in 1204, when they were taken from their ancient libraries and brought to Western Europe, and they were during the second half of the 20th Century, when what is now called Post Modernism emerged to critique key aspects of their organizing logic. In all those times we were Modern. I don't think we have ever not been. And before you dismiss those pesky, ugly Avant Guardists, especially since you are doing do in the context of networked computer machinery, I suggest you read this excellent article by Lev Manovich "Avant-guard as Software" https://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/espai/eng/art/manovich1002/manovich1002.html https://www.uoc.edu/artnodes/espai/eng/art/manovich1002/mano...