Pathways

Each month we keep track of the different paths modern life is taking and how writers are keeping up. Here are some routes we found in January 2024 on our modern life.

“Despite modern approaches to archaeology and preservation, as history moves forward we will only lose knowledge of the past.” The Palladium Letter

“J.S. Bach’s music may speak to people of all faiths and no faith, but that doesn’t make him a product of Enlightenment-era liberalism.” The Wall Street Journal

“Scholars now argue that early nomadic empires were the architects of modernity. But do we have the right measure of their success?” The New Yorker

Searching for Alexander the Great’s family Journal of Archaeological Science

A genealogy of chairs: the “mid-century modern” The Nation

On poetry and the art of paying attention Commonweal

Revisiting “modernity” in the Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory Cambridge University Press

And finally: the complete season of the Genealogies of Modernity podcast is now live!