Violence et vision : The Dynasts de Thomas Hardy by Laurence Estanove

“…The Dynasts, Thomas Hardy’s « epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, » is remarkable in its use of poetic and literary stage directions. Its modernity lies in this hybrid form, but also in its amazing power of visual representation. …”
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Thomas De Quincey between Romantics and Victorians by Céline Lochot

“…Longing for the past, unsure of his own value and status, he sees the emergence of Victorian modernity as a space where to define and lose himself; and is at his most creative when he manages to embrace the global uncertainty.…”
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De l’utopie à la nostalgie en Algérie française by Thomas Dodman

“…Their encounter reveals a complex relation to time and space that unites these two seemingly opposed ideas as an antinomic form specific to modernity.…”
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Japanese Popular Culture and Digimodernism by N. B. Afanasov

“…With the help of its main provisions, it is shown that Japanese popular culture was at the forefront of the cultural process, offering several interesting finds to modernity. After analyzing the socio-philosophical reasons for the success of Pokémon, the author points out that the concept of digimodernism has some applicability for the analysis of modern cultural phenomena, аnd a number of ideas of Alan Kirby about the autistic nature of modern digital civilization could be found as reflected in the culture…”
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Forme solide et École solide : comment penser une nouvelle grammaire (architecturale) scolaire ? by Béatrice Mabilon-Bonfils, Virginie Martin

“…The scholastic form is questioned on all sides by mutations which affect as much the way of thinking, organizing and dispensing knowledge as the social and political function a verticality of the solid school form answers to a liquid trans-modernity. This school is not yet affected by that the digital and global double turn. …”
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Néolibéralisation, polytopicités et techniques de l'information dans le département de la Manche by Arthur Devriendt

“…Thus, these policies construct a particular vision of rural modernity who doesn’t coincide with the practices of rural dwellers, especially the poorest minorities.…”
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Présence de Bouvard et Pécuchet chez Roland Barthes by Anne Herschberg Pierrot

“…It follows its development and pervasion in Barthes’ writing and lectures. The symbol of modernity in literature, Flaubert’s novel appears at once to be a critical encyclopedia of languages and an experimental model for writing, becoming for Barthes a major element in his thoughts about his own writing and about stupidity.…”
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A variação ontológica de raça na modernidade: Brasil e Cabo Verde by José Carlos dos Anjos

“…This article aims to launch some initial clues of comparative history of the race's ontological gradients in modernity. The empirical core of the analysis is double and both in the twentieth century: on the one hand, the dissolution of the category of race in the interior of Santiago Island, Cape Verde, despite the insistence of the most powerful landlords, and, on the other hand, the persistence of race in Brazil despite the insistence of the State to erase that category in the official discourses by authoritarian governments.…”
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Les substrats d’une pensée du « genre » dans les textes de María Zambrano by Nadia Mékouar-Hertzberg

“…These proposals demonstrate, if needed, the relevance and modernity of a reflection that, together with others, has contributed to the emergence of fields of study where the concept of "gender" has resulted fully effective and fruitful.…”
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Reflections on methodology and interdisciplinarity in the postmodern dialogue between theology and the natural sciences by M. C. de Lange

“… Postmodern interdisciplinarity provides a more flexible and productive methodological framework for the age-old dialogue between theology and the natural sciences than did the modern more rigid and oppositional disciplinary framework. …”
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“On A Mission”: Preserving Creole Culture One Tweet at a Time. Keith Frank, Zydeco, and the Use of Social Media by Marie Demars

“…In this unfavorable context, it might seem difficult to link zydeco with modernity or high-profile communication tools and technologies, yet more and more young Creole musicians are bridging the gap by heavily using social media to promote their music as well as their south Louisiana cultural heritage.…”
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A narrativa entre aspas de Bernardo Carvalho: legitimação e paratopia em um estudo de Onze: uma história by Paulo César Silva de Oliveira

“…The connections between local and global; author policies and text policies; as well as the place held by the Brazilian fiction in the contemporary scenario will be investigated inside Bernardo Carvalho’s textual machine, aiming at establishing limits and reaches of his writings regarding a modernity constituted by displacements, border crossings, and the dilution of political, geographical and fictional frontiers.…”
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Pós-desenvolvimento, indicadores e culturas de auditoria: reflexões críticas sobre governança e desenvolvimento by Guilherme Francisco Waterloo Radomsky

“…As a conclusion, the article rethinks contemporary social theory and related issues from development studies, as agency and auditing, peoples’ desire/ repulsion for development projects and the critique of modernity.…”
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Correlation of Social and Personal Identities: Current State of the Problem by E.P. Belinskaya

“… <p style="text-align: justify;">The relationship between the features of personality identification structures and the characteristics of modern social space does not need detailed evidence. …”
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Having faith in the university? Aspects of the relationship between religion and the university by Christo Lombaard

“…Then, the author argues against the a-religious impulses of modernity and discusses the place of the study of religion at the university from three perspectives: the paradigmatic philosophy of science, the sociological continuation of faith and the evolutionary importance of religion. …”
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« An Octopus / of ice » : stratigraphies d’un poème by Aurore Clavier

“…Fascinated by living and rock surfaces, and by their hidden depths, shaped by its multiple layers of discourse, “An Octopus,” the long poem Marianne Moore dedicated to the Mount Rainier glacier and national park at the beginning of the 1920s, invites to digging into deep time, as much as to the deciphering of modernity to which criticism has often reduced its interpretations. …”
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Dysfonctions mécaniques dans les interstices de l’infrastructure by Paul Fabié, Joaquin Ruiz Zubizarreta

“…Some are dysfunctional and became landscape; some accelerate native life; others make work easier or blur the lines between the imaginary worlds of tradition and modernity, mechanics and animals, development and resistance. …”
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Imagens e sons da Coreia do Sul em espaços transnacionais by Luã Ferreira Leal

“…The article focuses the relationship between state agencies, entertainment companies, and industrial conglomerates in promoting South Korea’s images as a country that combines modernity and tradition. Between the re-democratization in the late 1980s and the mandate of Park Geun-Hye, started in 2013 and finished in 2017, after the impeachment process, the country invested in positioning itself as adjusted to the conditions of globalization with projects that stimulated cultural production, tourism, and accomplishment of sports mega-events. …”
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Un fundamento filosófico para un modelo de sociedad culturalmente diversa by María del Carmen Gómez Martínez

“…The starting point is that cultural diversity is an obvious fact, but the models from the Modernity insisted on deleting an event such as cultural diversity for the sake of a single culture. …”
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Ce que l’anthropocène fait (faire) by Yann Calbérac

“…However, such a hypothesis raises many questions (epistemological, conceptual, and theoretical) that highlight the need to index narratives no longer in terms of time and temporality (which is what modernity has bequeathed us), but in terms of space and spatiality.…”
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