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  1. 🌿Nature finds a way inside this abandoned 1950s glass factory. Once a prestigious multinational HQ, the site now sits derelict and left to the elements. Inside the Modernist concrete shell are several massive internal atriums. Now, miniature worlds of greenery. A happy byproduct of decades of unchecked growth that is slowly engulfing this lost place.

    obsidianurbexphotography.com/i

    #Modernist #England #Photography #Urbex #Decay #Plants

  2. An ode to Modernist concrete. Rachid Karami International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon

    This collection of modernist architectural forms was the result of an international collaboration between famed Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and Lebanese engineers. The architecture is a blend of Brazilian Modernism and Lebanese styles.

    Or, that was the plan. Sadly, this ambitious site remains a sad futuristic ruin frozen in time.

    #Lebanon #Concrete #Modernist #Ruins #Tipoli #Design #Abandoned #Urbex

  3. Nan Shepherd, novelist of the North-East

    Prof Alison Lumsden discusses Nan Shepherd’s novels – THE QUARRY WOOD, THE WEATHERHOUSE, and A PASS IN THE GRAMPIANS – at our 2017 Schools Conference

    9/9

    youtube.com/watch?v=SUOwRnwNgt

    #Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

  4. “The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be carried along by her flow, to circle in the eddies of her experience”

    —Fraser MacDonald on growing up in Nan Shepherd’s village, for the London Review of Books

    8/9

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/fr

    #Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

  5. “To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain”

    Jo Milne celebrates Nan Shepherd’s achievements as a writer of prose & poetry, an editor, & an inspiring lecturer & traveller who loved literature & landscape

    7/9

    abdn.ac.uk/stories/nanshepherd

    #Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

  6. But in the climbing ecstasy of thought,
    Ere consummation, ere the final peak,
    Come hours like this…

    —Nan Shepherd, “Summit of Coire Etchachan”
    published in WANDERERS: A History of Women Walking, by Kerri Andrews

    6/9

    scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/p

    #Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #poem #poetry #hillwalking #Cairngorms

  7. Loch A’an, Loch A’an, hoo deep ye lie!
    Tell nane yer depth and nane shall I.
    Bricht though yer deepmaist pit may be,
    Ye’ll haunt me till the day I dee.
    Bricht, an’ bricht, an’ bricht as air,
    Ye’ll haunt me noo for evermair.

    —Nan Shepherd, “Loch Avon”

    📷 : Nick Bramhall, 12 June 2011

    4/9

    flickr.com/photos/black_fricti

    #Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #poem #poetry

  8. “In Shepherd’s writing… true learning—like hill-walking—is arduous. True knowledge of the mountains is only possible through the suffering of the body brought on through the relentless motion of the feet.”

    —Kerri Andrews on Shepherd’s nature poetics, via @literaryhub

    3/9

    lithub.com/on-the-nature-poeti

    #Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #Cairngorms #hillwalking

  9. Currently available on BBC Sounds – Robert Macfarlane celebrates Nan Shepherd’s intrepid literary spirit by embarking on an autumnal poetic pilgrimage right into the heart of her favourite wild places in the Cairngorms

    2/9

    bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mfndd

    #Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters #Cairngorms

  10. Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was born #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance

    A 🎂 🧵

    1/9

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/qu

    #Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #memoir #WomenWriters

  11. these 1920s mine safety posters go pretty hard

    Jean Schaack (1895-1959)
    #Luxembourg City Museum
    #modernist #illustration

  12. #Yeats was a strange #modernist: an #anti-modern man nevertheless too intellectual, honest, and rigorous to deny the necessity of coming to some terms with #modernitydaily.jstor.org/yeats-and-th...

    Yeats and the Occult Imaginati...

  13. Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was born #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing, & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN, have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance

    A 🎂 🧵

    1/8

    thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/qu

    #Scottish #literature #NanShepherd #modernist #modernism #20thCentury #NatureWriting #WomenWriters

  14. Reversing the camera for a #Photo down the cascade at #UnazukiOnsen, which ends in the #Kurobe river. The red bridge structures, cobble-lining, the moss, the ageing #Modernist hotels - It's all here (in 2019).

    #DayAndNight #Day #Photography #Japan #Japanese

  15. #ModernistMonday - today in Czech Koprivnice, where the most beautiful Eastern Block car, Tatra 603, was made 🚗

    The city center is a complex of office buildings, with restaurant-commercial building in the middle, on the side of the latter hangs a mosaic. Big lawn with trees is a nice addition, makes the concrete-dominated space liveable. Obviously #Tatra87 stands in the middle ❤️

    #modernist #modernism #modernizm #socmodernism #socmod #socmodernizm #czechia #czechy #tatra #mosaic #mozaika

  16. It's always beneficial to take time out & just look at stuff...and there's an awful lot of stuff at the Victoria & Albert Museum! #artday #inspirational #mid-century #1950s #1960s #furniture #modernist

  17. It's always beneficial to take time out & just look at stuff...and there's an awful lot of stuff at the Victoria & Albert Museum! #artday #inspirational #mid-century #1950s #1960s #furniture #modernist

  18. It's always beneficial to take time out & just look at stuff...and there's an awful lot of stuff at the Victoria & Albert Museum! #artday #inspirational #mid-century #1950s #1960s #furniture #modernist

  19. It's always beneficial to take time out & just look at stuff...and there's an awful lot of stuff at the Victoria & Albert Museum! #artday #inspirational #mid-century #1950s #1960s #furniture #modernist

  20. CW: nations, nationalism, social theory, origins and reevaluation

    @sociology @anthropology

    #sociology So I'm reading an early edition of Gellner's #Nations and #Nationalism. I had read an excerpt- his main case for nationhood and nationalism being heavily #modernist, rooted in the #industrial age, and the most controversial claim I think he makes- that a nation's #history
    and a lot of what constitutes its #culture are, well not "fabricated" but a reconstruction.

    As Anderson talks about in Imagined Communities, the very nature of a nation is it is a binding agent between a group where no one person can ever meet everyone in the outlined group. A lot of unifying culture can be understood as very particular, but through writing, cultural showcases, and the like, made to say they were in time immemorial a widespread unifying practice.

    What I'm getting to is reading #Graeber and #Wengrow in The Dawn of Everything, how it invites us to think about what prehistory and the dawn of history were like, and the nature of a nation's origins.

    Graeber through all his works was about using his deep knowledge of living communities as a way to propose alternative ways of living, alternative explanations, and create a critique of assumptions. In #Debt he goes on an attack of the believed barter period that predates societies that adopted money.

    In Dawn the question is whether the thinkers of classic social thinkers are working off an ahistorical or lightly empirical view of "the state of nature" and how so much social theory derives from thinkers that predate modern archeology and anthropology.

    I saw some academics be dismissive of Graeber and Wengrow. They do come into political philosophy with an interpretation but it's a difficult task to bridge knowledge of what Hobbes and Rosseau and others allege, and those thinkers themselves. I do think Graeber always issued important challenges to his readers and the larger community that studies bureaucracy, or kingship, or modern work, or value.

    The challenge is thus: when we are discussing, writing, shooting the breeze at a cafe or a late night establishment, how do we relate the ongoing task of assembling primary sources, archeological sites, and the everlasting process of rediscovering scholars who were left out of our education or reading list? In some cases, are we really basing "knowledge" on a series of assumptions going back decades or centuries in social thinking?

    #sociology #socialtheory #anthropology #theory #rosseau #hobbes #nature #origins

  21. Following up on my last post on the Faro 2, Gran Canaria it has some incredible details to which I need to look into the architect more. But there is a slight Brunswick Centre vibe I’m getting.

    #grancanaria #faro2 #architecture #abaonded #urbex #brutalist #brutalism #concrete #spain #deadmall #modernist

  22. #Hungarian #Modernist artist Imre Bak passed away earlier today. He was the creator of one of my favorite public art pieces from my childhood - "Cloud" (1976) kozterkep.hu/18764/felho (pictures on the left)

    #ModernArt #AbstractArt #PublicArt #Magyarul #photos #death #Concrete #Mosaic