Presentism Quotes

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. (Douglas Rushkoff)
Presentism implies not only a shift toward contemporary material (older material is denounced polemically as tied to dead authors), but an implicit structuring of time as always only a present, without a recollection of its past, without an aspiration to a future. View quote
Russell Berman
The domination of becoming produces another sort of fragmentation, which may be called "presentism.” Allen Tate has made the point that many modern people to whom the word "provincial” is anathema are themselves provincials in the to an extreme degree. Indeed, modernism is in essence a provincialism, since it declines to look beyond the horizon of the moment, just as a countryman may view with suspicion whatever lies beyond his country. View quote
Richard Weaver