Computer Science for (Live) Modernism(s)?: Magazines as Metaobjects

In a letter he wrote in 1935, Robert Herring put it best when he said, People have taken to asking, on phone and in person, if we are “modernist.” I have evolved a reply that what we print is original creative work, and there are inevitably moments when secondhand styles and phrases induce second-hand thought. So “original creative” removes any time-label. It always amuses me that when you put out that you want stuff that is “living,” people at once say “Ah. Modernist.” Have you noticed that?¹ More than a decade since the publication of Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz’s