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Garrett then takes one major step further, looking at the sickly side of modernity through the lens of the MeToo movement.

From Salon

Gelatin wasn’t a punchline; it was progress, the same way Tang was progress, the same way a shelf-stable “cheese food” promised modernity.

From Salon

They veiled the stage in gauze on “Copy of A,” casting dozens of Reznor shadows while he strutted and howled about a despondent, depersonalized modernity.

Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity.

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Two decades ago, he coined the term Junkspace to describe the leftover architecture of modernity, the stuff that piles up when the main event is “progress.”

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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