in this paper, we have tried to analyze and asses the process of formation and spatial – structural evolution of iranian-islamic cities through tehran case study as well as how to organize and effecting different factors specially modernism on urban elements. also we have discussed about formation and emergence of tehran and the effect of different pre modernism and postmodernism socio-economic...

In cultural theory, metamodernism becomes a new paradigm of the twenty-first century, epistemologically with (post) modernism, ontologically between and historically beyond modernism. It appears in context political changes following fall Berlin Wall environment digital progress, but also periods financial ecological crises. Rather than simple “zeitgeist”, as an arriving is to be understood mor...

Having defined Modernism and postmodernism, I then describe in what sense both paradigms have failed. The article discusses the possibility of a new approach that circumvents such drawbacks kind “third position” build on innovations modernism initiated while suggesting an alternative mode discourse overcomes its potential extreme rationalism or relativism.

Abstract High-tech modernism is a powerful construct for reading the broad range of effects digitalization on society. This response to Henry Farrell and Marion Fourcade's essay “The Moral Economy High-Tech Modernism” first notes that high-tech seems initially specified application advanced, quasi-liberal political economies. It then identifies three dimensions along which could usefully be ext...

The development of the media has radically changed understanding production and change. My criticism is treated as a cultural element. Individuals use technical tool for production. Media, on other hand, an object used this purpose. It necessary to state that such concepts modernism, postmodernism metamodernism have appeared in capitalist societies. These arisen due fact basic requirements each...

rationality and spirituality is a theory follows the spiritualism in west, to fill the spiritual gap made by modernism. the goal of this theory is reduction of human’s pain by collecting between rationality and spirituality, which is engendered by modernism and religion. as modernism based on reason, rationality is fundamental in this theory. spiritualty is application of rationality or is pers...

Stravinsky liked to boast to journalists about his worldwide success as a composer. During a chatty interview with Rafael Moragas in Barcelona in 1925, included in this volume, he described in a bemused fashion how two thousand old ladies had honored him at an event in Philadelphia by attempting to kiss his hand. He had put a halt to the proceedings by announcing through a megaphone that he nee...

Brazilian art critic Mário Pedrosa’s theorization of art’s affective power, whereby the relational contract with spectator is neither rational nor purely visual but infused feeling, was decisive for understandings geometric abstraction as expressive in 1950s. “Toward a Common Configurative Impulse” turns to another modernism, nestled alongside ones that would come define aesthetic artists assoc...

Meal machine, experimental laboratory, status symbol, domestic prison, or the creative and spiritual heart of the home? Over the course of the past century no other room has been the focus of such intensive aesthetic and technological innovation, or as loaded with cultural significance. Kitchen design has been both a central concern of modernism and fundamental to our concept of modern life (Mo...