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This architectural structure shows how far we as a society have come in terms of high tech designs and ambitious ideas of how a building should be constructed. In the past this would never have come about but thanks to new technological innovations it can.

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Like many of the previous posts I have chosen an architectural structure to define modernity. It is one of the most obvious ways in which challenging an authority can be seen. Going against the norms and creating something different despite what traditional architecture was/is.

The picture is of the Dublin Convention Centre and despite what you think of it, it is certainly different.

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I live in what has to be the most modernist city in the world. Modern thinking has created a city of 3 million in the desert - the city logo pays homage to its arab culture by includes the city name in its 2 official languages (Pink is arabic only, Pink and blue is English)

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These kit houses from Huf Haus (a German company) are popular in the affluent area where I live near S. London. They display many classic characteristics of modern architecture, especially in the bringing of the outside surroundings in, with the huge windows. They are opposite to the vernacular architecture in England in many ways - materials are modern, they are created in a factory and erected very quickly and efficiently, they are modern in their precision and heat-retention.

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Kempinski Hotel in Muscat it shows mimics a matrix of modern structures in its columns, glass roof and curtain walls with the carvings roof. It also stands as a modern interpretation of traditional structures which been used around the gulf country years ago.

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I took this photograph a few weeks ago in Den Haag - I love how the skyline shows the modern architecture but that it also has an older more historic statue in the foreground :)

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I'm not sure that everyone can understand this as modernity, but for a while now I think that the possibility to fly in those big planes is a modern idea and reality. Being able to travel around and learn new things in each trip is my basic idea of what is modern: to learn and teach but always with your roots in mind.

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building post-modernity’s imaginary of Hŭxley

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building post-modernity’s imaginary of Hŭxley

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Grey building, architecture of liminal cells (filmic theory), it’s Bristol urban literary imaginary construction, a symbolic presence of fiction narratives to post-modernity in Aldous Hŭxley “Brave New World”, chapter 1 (...) a incubator gray building on the novel of social science fiction. Hŭxley who lived and wrote in the City of Bristol and Oxford in 1931/32 among other places, and his contribution to modernity and later to post-modernity.

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This sculpture sits on a site overlooking the main route North from my town and takes the form of a female figure, with two large swooping arcs from the upraised palms of her hands to the hem of her dress. The idea of the arcs comes from past culture with use of the Gaelic name for the town, “comar nan allt”, translating as “the meeting of the waters”....and creates a notable and modern feature seen by thousands of passing drivers daily.

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Turkeys voting for Christmas?
Satire and political criticism are now commonplace. The iconography in cartoons, such as this, are now everyday events. We spoke about the responses that they can evoke with tragedies such as Charlie Hebdo.
This criticises and satirises both the modern use of Politically Correct speech, and raises a big issue of indigenous people, and displacement
For me, it also raises the issue of animal rights, obliquely.

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In my view, the brightest side of modernity is the encounter of different cultures. In my city, in Brazil, we are able to have contact with so many cultures! One example is the Japanese Fair that happens annually.

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This is the facade of the new university in Leipzig. The building is built in modern glass-concrete style. It was planned in 2007 and completed in 2017. The remains of the old university church were integrated in the building. This church had been blown up by the leadership of the GDR in 1968. This modern architecture of the university would thus like to preserve the destruction and at the same time integrate it into a new beginning

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I upload this computer visualisation of the so called Bibel Tower which was an idea to modernise the Gutenberg Museum in my home town Mainz, Germany. Once the city council came up with this idea to renew the aged Gutenberg Museum, heavy discussions in the population arose. The plan was so controversial since it would have changed the outlook of the museum tremendously next to the fact that the tower would have had a high cost. Eventually the city council decided to conduct its first-ever referendum about the plan. The referendum failed and the Gutenberg Museum stays the way it is. In my opinion it is kind of ironic that Johannes Gutenberg with the invention of the press opened up Modernity but the modernisation of a museum dedicated to his invention was rejected by the population of his home town.

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This picture was from a public lecture regarding the Reformation and it's impact not only on politics and religion but also emotional expression. For me, this is clearly not modern Europe as we not only have a cruel and inhumane punishment, burning alive, but we also have a child being present as well, something we would never consider doing today. Lastly, the reason these people are being burnt alive, holding different religions views, is seen as a gross violation of human rights and freedoms. URL: http://melbourneartnetwork.com.au/2011/12/12/public-lecture-by-lyndal-roper-and-symposium-emotions-and-historical-change-in-pre-modern-europe/

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This is the top of the Museum of Applied Arts in Hungary, which was temporarily removed for the time of reconstruction works. This part of the secessionist building shows that secession was a very modern style in its own time. - DoraH

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This is the top of the Museum of Applied Arts in Hungary, which was temporarily removed for the time of reconstruction works. This part of the secessionist building shows that secession was a very modern style in its own time. - DoraH

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In my head, the term "modernity" is inevitably connected with ART. We express our feelings through it – and through feelings we perceive our world. That is why I love modern art – because it shows the contemporary world as it is seen by someone who wanted to find something... more.

During my travels, I always have my copy of Ulysses by James Joyce in my handbag. It is already rumpled and well-worn, its pages sprinkled by seawater as well as dusty because of desert sand, but I don't mind. Every chapter reminds me the some moment when I was reading it on the beach in Thessaloniki or in the train in Antwerpen. And while the plot of the book takes place within a single day, I tantalize my reading of it through months, even years. The style of writing of this book was Joyce's way to express modernity, the style of reading it is mine.

Another example is the photography attached. The day when I took it was one of the best days in my life – it was my 25th birthday. I had just left S. M. A. K. (the museum of contemporary art in Gent, Belgium) and then I was  taking a walk through a park nearby, when I found this inscription on the wall. I was looking at it the same way as at artworks in museum just a few minutes before. It felt the same.

Modern art is everywhere around us. Sometimes, we create it even unconsciously because since modernity is the hardly seizable term, we express our feelings about it even through our everyday activities – we just don't have time to think about it anymore.

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New books with new ways of expressing oneself, searching for new meanings and new stories

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This type of wagon was a very modern invention at one point in time. Settlers in the US used these types of wagons to move their belongings and families across the country to the West in search of a better life.

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The way that we travel nowadays is one of the best examples of modernity. The complexity of the transport sistems in the world is something extraordinary.

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The outside is better than the inside in my view

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Something old and something new

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The vertical wood, Milan.

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someones idea of modern design, unless the construction and materials are included in the analysis it might not be modern?

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This is a picure I took last winter in Paris. I think it symbolises modernity well, as it is a biiling with quite a modern achitecture, built in the 1980s, containing documents from a long time ago . all of this is set in a neighbourhood which was heavily rebuilt recently

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The first thing that comes to my mind with the topic of modernity is the use of internet and cell phones, we can communicate with people all around the world in a second but it is still hard to have a real connection with people sitting next to us

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This picture had been taken inside Stonehenge (UK) during the summer solstice. Sometimes modernity (phones and young people ) is easier to find in contraposition to its opposite!

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Being able to cross the globe in less than a day

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Being able to cross the globe in less than a day

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I associate the invention of planes and the (relatively) newfound accessibility of travel with modernity. Being able to go to the other side of the world and experience an entirely different kind of lifestyle, for example, other than what you're used to -- that, to me, signifies progress, as you (literally) move away from your own traditions.

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European commission building .This is an example modern architecture housing a modern institution The European Union. 

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European commission building .This is an example modern architecture housing a modern institution The European Union. 

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This sculpture

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People in Switherland have no problems with garbage.

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In Switherland people have no problem with garbage.

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Recognizable modern designs aren’t common where I live but phones abound.

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A modern design that can be seen for miles around.

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This is main house. It’s the oldest building at the school which has been there since the school moved from London to Ashtead in 1926.

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St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate, founded in 1210, with 15th century arches, badly damaged by IRA bombs in the early 1990s, now restored. Behind stands/looms/  soars 'the Gherkin', opened in 2004, built by Norman Foster. A contrast to be deplored or admired?

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Bellydance-- a Middle Eastern dance form which has evolved during the modern period.  There are regional variations such as Egyptian vs Turkish.  There are also modern fusion styles such as American Tribal Style.  Raqs Sharki, Oryantal Dans, danse du ventre, Bauchtanz.  The photo shows Leyla Jouvana and Roland Jouvana who teach and perform from their base in Germany.

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Bellydance-- a Middle Eastern dance form which has evolved during the modern period.  There are regional variations such as Egyptian vs Turkish.  There are also modern fusion styles such as American Tribal Style.  Raqs Sharki, Oryantal Dans, danse du ventre, Bauchtanz.  The photo shows Leyla Jouvana and Roland Jouvana who teach and perform from their base in Germany.

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Anneliese

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This demonstrates that the process of change to culture has accelerated. China would have been seen as ancient at the time of the European industrial revolution. It has now become more modern in many ways!

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One of the staples of modernity is the evergrowing ability to consume natural resources at a faster rate than these can regenerate themselves.

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Banksy is believed to be a native Bristolian, my home town. His images of alternative graffiti began to appear in the ‘90s and his workings all had a common theme; to challenge our perception of authority. A clear example of “local” modernity.

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Modern dustbins in an old town..
I agree with Elisabeth Bird; Santiago Calatrava is a really modern Vau! -architect. The science park in Valencia, the railway station in Liege...

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This is a 14-century aqueduct that I walk over every morning. When it was renovated a few years ago, it got a modern walkway. On the right, there is rusty iron handrail, and on the left the handrail is made of shiny chrome. It's a nice contrast of old and new.

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Modernity in Europe today is that we are the generation that have first realised the natural resources of the world are finite and some could runout in our lifetime. This symbol represents attempts to rectify this problem by recycling products and materials. - Ian Fraser

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Auditorio Adán Martín, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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Auditorio Adán Martín, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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This auditorio, on Avenida de la Constitición in Santa Cruz, was designed by architect Santiago Calatrava Valls and completed in 2003. It is an excellent venue for a wide range of events and a popular landmark of the city.

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Something I associate with modernity is the new Library of Birmingham.  It is completely different from buildings I am used to, inside as well as outside.  However, it still has reference books and novels like traditional libraries, and comfortable chairs for people to sit and read.  It is a really new kind of building but also a community place.
Anne Mills

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To close the gap between the push button order & the human act... Michael Newman

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To close the gap between the push button order & the human act... Michael Newman

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Jacob Bronowski explores the importance of constuction in science and what happens when we confuse our constructions with reality!

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Jacob Bronowski explains why the pursuit of science is better than seeking absolute knowledge. With subtlitles, to emphasise the poignancy of his words.

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Modernity is the capital of Europe's most important and known monument the 'Manneken pis

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Modernity is the capital of Europe's most important and known monument the 'Manneken pis

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This monument has more than 900 suits, all of them symbolize cultures, events, traditions and disagreement with political issues. Freedom of expression.

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Modernity is a notion related to the artificial man-made world. There is no modernity in nature.

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Modernity is a notion related to the artificial man-made world. There is no modernity in nature.

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The stock market is an example of modernity. It is non a traditional way of making money!!!

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Sergio Hernández Quintero in Vienna, Austria.

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Sergio Hernández Quintero in Vienna, Austria.

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Visiting Hundertwasser Hause-Krawina, Vienna. By Friedensreich Hundertwasser. This is very clear example of modernity in a city as Vienna.

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Vienna, Austria, with its Skyline is a clear example between modernity and old heritage protection...Vienna is so nice, a wonderful place,

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I work at an art museum, and the ryman gallery displays some of the most inflammatory artwork in the museum. It questions the need (or previously untouchable construction) for art to have visual interest besides texture, presence, or dimension in order to be considered art. The traditional view, that art should be representational, was already deconstructed/broken in the abstract, cubist, and surrealist artwork of the modern era. Ryman's paintings continue a long modernist tradition of questioning the authority of long-established views.

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A trait of modernity seen across the world. Modern ingenuity is not always good for civilization or planet

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In 1907 Picasso paints "The ladies of Avignon".
With this work Picasso breaks with the traditional canons of painting and initiates a new way of understanding art: cubism.
It renounces the traditional perspective, the actual colors, it eliminates the depth, the forms are destroyed, it is relinquished to see the figures from a single point of view.
It is a clear example of modernity in art.

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Implementing an inefficient expensive and ugly technology to not solve the modern problem of climate change, blighting the countryside for future generations

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Non-modern agriculture

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The inventions that have allowed us to fly and to buil cities in the middle of the desert. Not sure ll clever.

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The capital city of Valletta, which is also my hometown. The city older is old, it has plenty of buildings which are being refurbished and although the facade cannot be changed its interiors are being modernised.

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View from Library of Birmingham. A modern city and library, both with their potentials and problems. The city is hit by cutbacks and severely reduced library opening hours and staff numbers. Yet the Library is still a centre for learning, not least for those with fewer means. No-one has to pay to enter sit and read, study or rest here.
Jon

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This is the opposite of modern for me: a small village church that served a community of less than 100 people who could expect to spend their complete lives in this community, and would probably marry someone from within the same group

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This is the main thing I associate with modernity and this was the first thing I thought of a a recent technological development. I also think of the globalised world as modern - Things that would never have been available to us even a few decades ago are now easy to acquire.

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Modernity is around us in everything we do or watch or listen to. It is the break with the regular classical forms of the past.

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This is Betile: named after the sacred stones of prehistoric times, this is Zaha Hadid's Museum of Nuragic (Sardinian prehistory) period in Cagliari. Or better - this would have been. Because it has never been built. This image is not a photo, it's a computer project. I think this is a perfect example on how pre-, actual and post-modern are intertwined: a never finished project about prehistory that was regarded by the inhabitants as a symbol of modernity and future for their city, which, though never built, feels somehow real (you thought it was photo, didn't you?) and has somehow its presence in the minds of the inhabitants. The holographic that becomes real: this is (post)modern.

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A Permaculture project created by a young nurse and his companion, a mechanic of automobiles, both out of the system, in their characteristics of sustainability, creativity and dynamism updated technologically and culturally constitute one of many emerging forms of modernity in Portugal

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Questioning authority as modernity: I see this Brexit protest march in London, 25 March 2017, as questioning the authority of the British Government, and perhaps challenging those who regard membership of the EU as a break with British tradition of self-determination.  (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)

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Brexit protest march - Wikimedia commons

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These chicks are nesting in a traditional 19th century Church.The new emerges supported by historic pillars.

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The world in a single line

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Here is a photo of a visit to London to watch football. where I stopped by the Thames Barrier. An engineering project to stop excessive tidal surges threateing London.

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I couldn't resist adding this photo of the rebuilt  Wembley Stadium in London, taken in May 2016, when I visited to support my team.

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In the late 60s my father used to sometimes take us for walks around the City of London square mile on Sunday afternoons. Often we would end up around the then new Barbican Centre. The "Brutalist" design was often condemned in style as being "Modern". Now nearly 50 years later it is being promoted as being worth conserving. So that what is "Modern" is relative to when you are.

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The picture is taken in my neighbourhood,  Bạch Đằng Quay, District 1 of Hochiminh City. It shows the Saigon River with high buildings on both sides. Modernity makes my city almost  resemble any other cities in the world, doesn’t it?

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This is the modernity I do not like. As a society, we are slowly losing the ability to communicate with each other face to face.

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I was looking for something local which fitted into the criteria that defines modernity in architecture by RIBA. So these flats in my town were an ideal example du to their cylindrical shapes, flat roofs, choice of materials,  an absence of ornament or mouldings and finally often using white/cream in their palette.

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I work in technology, and my children have grown up watching me work on computers. My daughter, who is eight, taught herself to program on the commandline, because the user interface wasn't moving fast enough for her and she "wanted to work with the computer directly." I think of computers as new, and user interfaces as a lovely move forward, but digital natives are moving so much faster, that they are questioning what we built. If "finding America" made the people of those times reconsider Classical philosophy, what then when we are considering bigger leaps in only a generation?

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The original stone cathedral was destroyed in the 2011 earthquake. A temporary cathedral was constructed until such time as the town council decides what to do about the original cathedral.

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Demographic transition is modernity itself ...

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Demographic transition is modernity itself ...

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This is a serving of Currywurst, a modern German fast food. (Sorry if it's not the most photogenic -- it is fast food, after all.) This dish evidences the fluidity of our constructions of culture and our movement away from rigid traditionalism -- utilising American ketchup and Indian curry alongside German pork sausage, this dish attests to modernity in German cuisine.

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Museum of Liverpool

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My definition of modernity is the possibility of living/studying/working abroad, the change of barriers and the endless connection to the outside world.

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For me this image represents modernity as it's a historically rich place but also very modern.

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I think this is a modern scene, which is a natural area with the University behind and art decoration in front of it. It's a modern idea of saying "the space is ours".

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Dubai, evolving from wind towers of yore to soaring glass and steel skyscrapers such as the Burj Khalifa, marking the emirate's transition from a creekside fishing village to a modern cosmopolitan city

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Modern Sculpture-an example of changing ideas about art

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Candido Portinari was one of the greatest artists of Brazilian Modernity. His paintings  has some expressionists traits.

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Candido Portinari was one of the greatest artists of Brazilian Modernity. His paintings  has some expressionists traits.

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Vilnius University Library - MKIC in Vilnius, Lithuania

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Vilnius University Library - MKIC in Vilnius, Lithuania

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Photo was taken from: http://www.madeinvilnius.com/en/news/in-february-vilnius-will-open-the-largest-and-most-modern-library-in-lithuania/i/