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Modernism: An Interdisciplinary Email Discussion List

mod*ern*ism (n): 
1. Modern thought, character, or practice; sympathy with modern ideas, 
practices or standards. 
2. Something, as a particular usage or style, that is characteristic of 
modern times. 
3. The theory and practice of modern art.
4. An email discussion list.

Modernism, , is a new electronic discussion 
list devoted to the discussion of modern culture in all its myriad forms. 

What does "Modernism" signify?
What *is* Modernity, and how is it experienced and represented? 
What does it mean to *be* modern? To be anti-modern? post-modern?

Subscribers from all disciplines are encouraged to join the conversation. 
What might modern political thought, modern architecture, modern 
literature, modern art, modern philosophy, modern history, modern 
anthropology have to say to each other? 

Modernism is an "open" list (anyone can subscribe), and is "moderated" 
only to prevent abusive attacks and unsolicited commercial postings. 

To subscribe:

Address an email message to: listproc@u.washington.edu

Leave the subject line blank, and write: subscribe modernism firstname 
lastname

in the message body. (Of course, unless your name happens to be 
"firstname lastname," you should replace those blank signifiers with your 
own identity).

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