Modern Times, Modern Places

Modris Eksteins, Peter Conrad

The American Historical Review · 1999 · 94 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Doomsday and after the end of the world in Vienna interrogating the universe trains, cars, aeroplanes Zaum metamorphoses the adventures of Mercury returning the sky arms and mankind the beginning of the world in Moscow and Petrograd the new human beings vessels and voids the mysteries of Paris the end of the world in Berlin the early people spring, sacred and profane the new inhumanity the Chapliniad the age of light power and darkness Ameriques, Amerika the end of the world at Hiroshima America and infinitude Popism the prosthetic God the newer human beings third worlds spaceship Japan the great re-engagement keep on going.