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First, he gives an account of the failure of various modernities (particularly the Enlightenment, culminating in the writings of Kant and Hegel) to fully repress aspects of history and reality that cannot be assimilated into an overarching and unified schema.
Where Art Worlds Meet: Multiple Modernities and the Global Salon" felt crowded with some four hundred attendees (of whom about thirty were speakers): Biennale officials in dark suits, artists in black jeans, curators in funky furs, historians and critics in scarves or tieless button-downs (apart from one notable exception in Prada taffeta).
Hurston's alternative modernist novel places the centralized language of modernity in a dynamic relation with lived modernities on the periphery, suggesting that such a relational account of lived modernities is more complete than the analysis, however thorough, of any one particular experience of modernity.
 
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