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Modern Horizons Journal

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    • Rhythm, Duration, Presence (October 2021)
    • Senses of Architecture (June 2019)
    • Authority & Transgression (June 2018)
    • Nihilism … Utopianism (June 2017)
    • Identity, Intimacy (June 2016)
    • Conversations with Tradition (June 2015)
    • Translation and Transcendence / La traduction et la transcendance (June 2014)
    • Modernity, Ideology, and the Novel (June 2013)
    • Ideas of Place and Particularity (June 2012)
    • On Violence (November 2011)
    • The Importance of Kitsch (June 2011)
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    • Ian Angus in Conversation with Andrew Bingham
    • David Goa in Conversation with Andrew Bingham: In the Presence of Good Company
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    • Rhythm, Duration, Presence (June 2021)
    • Senses of Architecture (June 2019)
    • Authority & Transgression (June 2018)
    • Nihilism… Utopianism (June 2017)
    • Identity, Intimacy (June 2016)
    • Conversations with Tradition (June 2015)
    • Translation and Transcendence / La traduction et la transcendance (June 2014)
    • Modernity, Ideology, and the Novel (June 2013)
    • Ideas of Place and Particularity (June 2012)
    • On Violence (November 2011)
    • The Importance of Kitsch (June 2011)
    • Submission Guidelines and Style Guide
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The Importance of Kitsch (June 2011)

A Fetish for Fugitive Aesthetics: Cinematic Kitsch and Visual Pleasure in The Tales of Hoffmann
David Scott Diffrient

Pour un Baudelaire contemporain
Nicholas Hauck

« Le Meilleur des mondes » Kitsch and Humanity in Michel Houellebecq’s La Possibilité d’une île
Neli Koleva

Kitsch as a Conceptual Strategy in the Work of Liliana Porter
Abigail Winograd

Modern Horizons Journal 2018