I will be glad when people stop using the word “modern” for this kind of thing.
It’s an artifact of some imagined distinction we seem to cling to in the computer world, between the present and the past. No one talks about how to write modern novels. They’re just novels. It’s presumed that they are changing over time. And that things are situated in a historical progression.
Also, modernism is an actual thing, and it would be nice if we could use the word for that.
I'd rather say "current", because to me "contemporary" is something like a transitive adjective. Things really should be contemporary with (or contemporaries of) something else.
I’d rather use an actually descriptive adjective that situates practices in logical space, rather that use a time-relative term that will become meaningless within a year.
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I will be glad when people stop using the word “modern” for this kind of thing.
It’s an artifact of some imagined distinction we seem to cling to in the computer world, between the present and the past. No one talks about how to write modern novels. They’re just novels. It’s presumed that they are changing over time. And that things are situated in a historical progression.
Also, modernism is an actual thing, and it would be nice if we could use the word for that.
No doubt. I believe the word they are looking for is contemporary.
I'd rather say "current", because to me "contemporary" is something like a transitive adjective. Things really should be contemporary with (or contemporaries of) something else.
I’d rather use an actually descriptive adjective that situates practices in logical space, rather that use a time-relative term that will become meaningless within a year.