CLARCK, T.J., Farewell to an idea.

book deepest conviction, that already the modernist past is a ruin, the logic of whose architecture
we do not remotely grasp p. 2
it is just that the modernity which modernism prophesied has finally arrived that the forms of
representation that it originally gave rise to are now unreadable p. 2
I want modernism to emerge as a distinctive patterning of mental and technical possibilities p 7
Sobre el concepto de modernity p. 7-8...
Il I cannot have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least Capitalism remains my
Satan (p. 8)
It is the blindness of Modernity that seems to me fundamental, and to wich modernism is a
response: the great fact, to go back to Adam Smith's insight, is the hiddenness of the hidden hand;
or rather, the visibility of that hiddenness the availability to individual consciousness of more and
more information pointing to the purposlessness of social action (p. 8)