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Retro-modernism<\/a><\/h3>\n
I wrote a lengthy piece about modernism in my last post. Then I drafted another lengthy piece about its critical implications for so-called \u2018ecomodernism\u2019, which became so lengthy that it turned into two posts. Then I read over them, and felt \u2013 bored.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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So it\u2019s probably time to move on from ecomodernism. But there\u2019s a little bit of unfinished business to unfurl in this post before starting on something else. I may even need to spend some time actually farming soon (there\u2019s ewes to lamb and seeds to sow), as well as putting in some research time for my next cycle of posts, so the pace may have to slacken.<\/p>\n

Anyway \u2013 Unfinished business #1: I got some great feedback to my last post here on SFF, and at\u00a0Resilience.org<\/a>\u00a0and via New York academic\u00a0Anthony Galluzzo\u2019s site<\/a>. Constructive, engaged criticism \u2013 the blogosphere at its best. I\u2019d argued with the help of the late Marshall Berman\u2019s book\u00a0All That Is Solid Melts Into Air<\/em>1\u00a0that agrarian populism \u2013 that is, the localist politics of a neo-peasant small farm movement \u2013 is not anti-modern, nostalgic or backward-looking but on the contrary is thoroughly modernist in its willingness to abandon the weight of tradition accumulated through the history of capitalist development, and to chart alternative paths to sustainability and social justice. The criticisms that came back to me mostly hinged on a sense that I was over-extending the concept of modernism and effacing its negatives. Reasonable points, calling me back to my more sceptical pre-Berman take on modernism. But I still think Berman opens interesting ways of seeing how contemporary politics \u2013 including the green, leftist and agrarian populist politics with which I\u2019m most engaged \u2013 have to develop more subtle narratives about history and human agency than they typically do. I hope to come back to this at a later date.<\/p>\n

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Retro-modernism I wrote a lengthy piece about modernism in my last post. Then I drafted another lengthy piece about its critical implications for so-called \u2018ecomodernism\u2019, which became so lengthy that it turned into two posts. Then I read over them, and felt \u2013 bored. So it\u2019s probably time to move on from ecomodernism. But there\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12956,111,8075,12957,2601,6665,12955,9738],"class_list":["post-18869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-agrarian-populism","tag-capitalism","tag-ecomodernism","tag-marshall-berman","tag-modernism","tag-resilience-org","tag-retro-modernism","tag-small-farm-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18870,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18869\/revisions\/18870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}