Pathways

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in May 2024 on our modern life.

“Sacred Modernity”: Beauty in Brutalist churches? Dezeen

Designing an alternative (Latin American) modernity Interior Furniture Design Magazine

“Manet, the Man who Invented Modernity“ Musée d’Orsay

“A new history of inequality”: On the insufficiency of redistribution Commonweal

On AI, ethics, and hyperabundance n+1

C. S. Lewis and Maksym Kryvtsov: poetry on war Church Life Journal

Kevin Hart’s Contemplation: The Movements of the Soul Columbia University Press

2024 A.B. (Anno Blattellae): how the phylogenetics of the cockroach followed the spread of Christianity (or vice versa?) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

More on cockroaches on modernity The New York Times