{"product_id":"nihilism-art-technology-sven-olov-wallenstein-9789186883010","title":"Nihilism, Art, Technology","description":"Beginning in an analysis of three paradigmatic instances of the encounter between art and technology in modernism-the invention of photography, the step beyond art in Futurism and Constructivism, and the interpretation of technology in debates on architectural theory in the 1920s and '30s-this book analyzes three philosophical responses to the question of nihilism-those of Walter Benjamin, Ernst J nger, and Martin Heidegger-all of which are characterized by an avant-garde sensibility that looks to art as a way to counter of the crisis of modernity. These responses are then brought to bear on the work of the architect Mies van der Rohe, whose \"silence\"-understood as a withdrawal of language, sense, and aesthetic perception-is analyzed as a key problem in the interpretation of the legacy of modernism. From this, a different understanding of nihilism, art, and technology emerges. These concepts form a field of constant modulation, which implies that the foundations of critical theory must be subjected to a historical analysis that acknowledges them as ongoing processes of construction, and that also accounts for the capacity of technologies and artistic practices to intervene in the formation of philosophical concepts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sven-Olov Wallenstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9186883011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789186883010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Axl Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.28d","brand":"Sven-Olov Wallenstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44227853222143,"sku":"9789186883010","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eab9cb19-a337-46db-85ed-feb9fa0ea559.jpg?v=1692810965","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nihilism-art-technology-sven-olov-wallenstein-9789186883010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}