Modernism

A friendship network dressed as an intellectual movement—and still the blueprint for how elites credential each other without institutions.

Expressionism isn’t a style—it’s the moment art stopped copying the world and started reporting on the nervous system.

Imagism didn’t reinvent poetry—it weaponised concision.

Pollock didn’t invent gesture—he built a machine that made gesture legible as structure.

The Boom didn’t export Latin America—it exported Latin American novelists’ control over form.