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I will be glad when people stop using the word “modern” for this kind of thing. It’s an artifact of some imagined distinction we seem to cling to in the comput
by erikpukinskis 8y ago
I will be glad when people stop using the word “modern” for this kind of thing.
It’s an artifact of some imagined distinction we seem to cling to in the computer world, between the present and the past. No one talks about how to write modern novels. They’re just novels. It’s presumed that they are changing over time. And that things are situated in a historical progression.
Also, modernism is an actual thing, and it would be nice if we could use the word for that.
- jeffnappi 8y agoNo doubt. I believe the word they are looking for is contemporary.
- kirkules 8y agoI'd rather say "current", because to me "contemporary" is something like a transitive adjective. Things really should be contemporary with (or contemporaries of) something else.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoI’d rather use an actually descriptive adjective that situates practices in logical space, rather that use a time-relative term that will become meaningless within a year.