Talk:High modernism

message: This reads very anti currently. Secretlondon 04:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Aye, it does.  Everyone I've read who speaks of "high modernism" uses the phrase pejoratively.  Perhaps this should be made more explicit.  Smerdis of Tlön 04:18, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
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message: Why is Steven Pinker headlining this section, let alone even in it? Shouldn't an art historian or period art critic whose work dealt with and defined "high modernism" headline it? Moreover, shouldn't it begin with a positive review of high modernism, like that from Clement Greenberg or Michael Fried?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.34.1.160 (talk) 02:33, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the arts section 

message: Should the "M" be capitalized? (High modernism to High Modernism) Dude1818 (talk) 02:55, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: The footnotes that refer to Taylor's work do not lead further than that, we see Taylor's name, a page number, but no book title. This should be added.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.194.252.40 (talk) 14:17, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you mean footnote number 2? I find quite a lot more there: "Peter J. Taylor, Modernities: A Geohistorical Interpretation (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 18, 32." Subsequent entries are shortened to author-page format, as with several other references. I suppose we could complain about the lack of an ISBN.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 18:14, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to Taylor is lacking 

message: I'm calling this page out for violating the NPOV principle. As of now, every single evaluation of High Modernism in this page is negative. If the term "High Modernism" is defined to be a negative phrase, then it is better to state it out in the front. As of now, this page looks like a regurgitation of James Scott's anti-high-modernist viewpoint. 
High Modernism has certain undisputed successes, such as metric standardization, timezone standardization, electrification, railway gauge standardization, standardization of data formats, etc. We won't even be writing on Wikipedia if there is no standardization of the TCP/IP technology stack. To ignore such successes and only discuss its failings is a clear violation of the NPOV principle.
And what is with the "the essential unlivability of Bauhaus-inspired box architecture"? I grew up in Shenzhen, China, in a box building. Many buildings in China are boxy as shown in the photo. Nobody I knew seemed to suffer from some kind of dehumanization symptom from living in boxy buildings. If there is some psychological study showing that living in boxy buildings can lead to some kind of dehumanization, please cite it, I would love to know about that.
pony in a strange land (talk) 23:43, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Well actually what it does is parrot Scotts views without apparently mentioning him and recounting them as if it was a major current in anthropology, sociology or i dunno consensus social science if there were such a thing, which there isn't. And even if there was this wouldn be anything in it other than Scotts schtick. 98.4.112.204 (talk) 14:09, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page violates NPOV 

message: * The tomato harvester. Ambiguous case. A small group of plucky scientists, labored many years, to design the perfect tomato and the perfect harvester to allow massive production across California, squeezing out small-time tomato harvesters in the process, decreased variety, made tomato production legible, and made tomatoes a lot cheaper. In particular, it made ketchup so cheap it became the iconic flavoring sauce.
* plattenbau, Urban planning in communist countries
* Metrication
pony in a strange land (talk) 17:45, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some ideas for future addition