The Genealogies of Modernity Journal

Decline & Renewal Grant Martsolf and Brandon Daily Decline & Renewal Grant Martsolf and Brandon Daily

What Is The Machine?

The story of modernity is not so much that we have expelled the gods and that their throne sits empty but rather that it has been filled with a new god.

Grant Martsolf and Brandon Daily conclude their series from The Savage Collective

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Literature & Arts Daniel Cunningham Literature & Arts Daniel Cunningham

Severance: of Body and Soul

If you give your soul to the enterprise, for the sake of your desire to live a meaningful life beyond its reach, you might be rewarded with the blessing of forgetting that such a life was ever possible.

Daniel Cunningham on the neoliberal wager

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Decline & Renewal Alexandrea Pérez Allison Decline & Renewal Alexandrea Pérez Allison

Recipes for a Different Modernity

Using these recipes privileges cultural memory and tradition over efficiency and precision. Thus, we participate in the ritual of cooking not as a means of scientific inquiry or perfection, but to strengthen the community ties that bring us together at the table.

Alexandrea Pérez Allison on cookbooks and modernity.

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