From 1989, or European Music and the Modernist Unconscious by Brodsky Seth

Author:Brodsky, Seth
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520279360
Publisher: University of California Press

already characterized by a deep, truly undecidable doubleness of mind in the face of the main forms of modernity. And that doubleness was constitutive; since modernism is a name not for a stance of Left or Right insurgency or negation, but for a pattern of artistic practice in which modernity’s very means of representation—the structure of symbolic production and reproduction within it—are put to the test of exemplification in a particular medium. That is to say, one can never be certain of modernism’s “attitude” to the appearance and logic of modernity because modernism itself was never certain—because it could not have put modernity to the test in the way it did without bracketing overall “judgment” of what it took on until such judgment was given in the act (the whole structure) of representation itself.43

Taking issue with Anderson’s third coordinate, Clark goes on to ask whether it is actually true that

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