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Cultural Transfer and Acceleration. Spatial and Temporal Structures of Modernity

The paper uses the impact of Viennese modernity as an example both to clarify the role of cultural transfer in modernity and to compare the specificity of Viennese modernity with other types of changes in culture 1880-1918 from the viewpoint of continuity and discontinuity with later developments. Both acceleration and the German Beschleunigung appear in recent years as key concepts in a number of studies, sometimes explicitly connected to the analysis of temporal structures of modernity, sometimes as a reaction to diverse theories of historical development, visions of future etc. Special attention will be paid to the recent work of Armen Avanessian and Eelco Runia’s Moved by the Past as well as the use of the concept event. The paper tries to explore the question of cultural transfer as the vehicle of acceleration, including the analysis of the media of transfer, representing technological changes. Of particular interest is the political impact of cultural transfer: cultural transfer appears both as planned and spontaneous. The aspect of fashion as a vehicle of introducing changes is equally important. An account will be given of shifting borders and shatter zones connected with the disintegration of complex entities, i.e. in our case the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The corpus of examples is drawn from the Croatian-Austrian interface both in the nominally precise sense and in the sense connected with more comprehensive entities, the already mentioned empire or Yugoslavia.

Austria-Hungary ; Yugoslavia ; Vienna Modernism ; cultural transfer ; Armen Avanessian ; Eelco Runia

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