Discussion

The historian J.T. Clark distinguishes modernity, characterized as the domination by the economic, from modernism, a political and artistic reaction to it, seeking new forms of life against that domination. Modernism is an utopian and negative energy within modernity, which says that everything, i.e. a new start, is possible.

Source: J.T. Clark. L'adieu a une idee: episode d'une histoire de la modernite.