“Cleanliness as racial hygene” Lmao. The major historical proponents of your ‘racist’ and ‘colonialist’ aesthetics are Japanese. Read some Kenya Hara. Ironically, he has a book called “White”, wherein the only notion of whiteness void of mental handicap is articulatedhttps://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1185970849423208449 …
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As early as 1933 modernists like Bruno Taut had traveled to Japan and were left flabbergasted by the modular rationality of the tatami, the traditional principles of Japanese aesthetics (Wabi Sabi, Shibui, &tc), Edo architecture in general, the ceremony of tea...
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Upon returning from such a trip, Le Corbusier was so impressed by what he had glimpsed in Japan that he wrote something along the lines of "Everything we are trying to do in Europe, the Japanese have already done hundreds of years ago"
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Europe was possessed by a technology frenzy at that time; whatever principle of pure aesthetics the modernist managed to infuse in their work, it was due to functional reasons but also, quite importantly, to a fetish for Japan as the two cultures increasingly mingled
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As early as 1871 the Meiji government sent their first delegation to Europe and to the US (mission Iwakura), a hundred officials, translators, technical experts and students strong, to study industrial fabrication techniques and to collect samples of objects
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Ironically, the Japanese were fetishizing the West (and neglecting their own aesthetic traditions, to a point) while the westeners were smuggling their aesthetics into what would become the evil imperialist modernism
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The Japanese learned a lot from Europe and fetishized the Bauhaus enough, but Western chronicles — which, it should be conceded, are often arrogant and self-aggrandizing — often underplay just how much the Europeans took from the Japanese
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Modern minimalism and the aesthetics of cleanliness are a byproduct of a quintessentially Japanese influence. 20th century modernists never came close to the clinical heights of the Chashitsu — the Tea Room — from which absolutely nothing can be taken or added
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Nor did they ever put much emphasis on words such as "simplicity" or "essence" or the great sinner "minimalism", which was unknown in the west until the art movement from the 60s. They'd rather speak of functionality, economy, standardization
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Which brings me to the second reason why a woke critique of modernism is quite simply absurd. Narratives of functionality and economy were always paired with narratives of "liberating the masses", best expressed in social housing utopias
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The most ideologically significant part of architectural and design modernism was a Marxist project. Aesthetics were functional to an ideology. Hannes Mayer, director of the Bauhaus and later Soviet Union émigré, was a fervent Marxist who brought his ideology to the school
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All the urbanist utopias were underpinned by a desire to provide the masses with better conditions of life, and if they did so in an absolutist and imperialist fashion, they did so also with Marxist ideological earnestness
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Wokism is nothing other than reheated Marxism where the class struggle has been replaced by the racial and biological struggle —where the proletariat has been replaced by ethnic minorities, women, the obese— and one cannot just wield their axe against their own forefathers
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On top of that, ignoring the history and origins of an aesthetic complex of ideas that has its roots in an Asian culture dating back hundreds of years. Academia is rotten, and citing more imbeciles doesn't make an argument any more substantial
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I didn't even have to mention, on modernism and racism, how the Nazis shut down the Bauhaus, how Hitler ostracized modernists completely after he made Albert Speer's monumental traditionalist architecture the state's official style ...
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.. how Hitler himself, upon being shown Mies van der Rohe's designs (the literal epitome of modernist cleanliness and order) for a new Pavilion, tossed them on the floor and stepped on them indignantly
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