📝 Plot: In a quiet French village, a mayor plans to replace a meadow and old tree with a modern media center, triggering debate among locals. A teacher, writers, and villagers discuss progress, culture, and ecology, exposing tensions between modernization and tradition in a reflective, dialogue-driven story about values, community, and the cost of change.

#Larbrelmaireetlamediatheque #Comedy #Drama #Politics #RuralLife #Ecology #Philosophy #Debate #Modernity

#borisvian #musique #music #jacquestati #mononcle #playtime #trafic #modernity #architecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PTqTjHs5c0

Two Ladies Taking a Walk (19th century) by Constantin Guys.

Source: The Metropolitan Museum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/9b3a5704-4121-433f-ae24-78770302d38d

#abstract #modernity #illness #modernism #convalescence #movement #walking #paris #art #publicdomain

In many respects “science” is what it means to be “modern” and, in the 20th century, science would be inextricably entangled with all the hopes and fears of modernity, but how should we see science in our own “post-modern” world?

Comparisons with the Reformation might help

(old paper of mine)
#science #authority #modernity #postmodernity #Renaissance
https://literacyofthepresent.wordpress.com/writing-2/the-authority-of-science-and-the-postmodern-reformation/.

Fjord Landscape, Georg Anton Rasmussen

I think this guy figured out how to paint this exactly right. I'm reading a thing about community built on a human-comprehensible scale, maybe that's why I can relax when I look at this. At the same time, I don't speak Norse and probably wouldn't be welcome here. What the f- do we do with this American from the future? Why is he just sitting there looking at the water, crying? He doesn't even know how to milk goats or gut fish. 😂
#art #life #modernity #cityLife #special #holy #safety #peace #love #fishing #farming

“Je ne suis pas du tout contre l’architecture moderne, mais je crois que l’on devrait faire passer non seulement un permis de construire, mais aussi un permis d’habiter”, Jacques Tati, 1958.

#mononcle #jacquestati #adrienneservantie #cinema #comedy #france #fifties #furniture #architecture #modernity