Main entry:

Lahiji, Nadir, 1948- author.

Title & Author:

Architecture, philosophy and the pedagogy of cinema : from Benjamin to Badiou / Nadir Lahiji ; foreword by Todd McGowan.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

Description:

xxii, 168 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Architecture at the 'end' of cinema -- Returning to the philosophy of masses: Benjamin and Badiou -- From the photographic moment of critical philosophy to the optical unconscious -- Mass art and impurity: Reading Benjamin with Badiou -- In and out of Plato's cave -- Theory of distraction: Tactile and optical -- Poverty of experience -- Dialectics and mass art -- The proletarian mise-en-scene -- Epilogue: The art of the masses in the age of pornography.

Summary:

"Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. Discussing cinema as 'mass art', they tend to forget that architecture, before cinema, was the only existing 'mass art'. In this work author Nadir Lahiji proposes that the philosophical understanding of the collective human sensorium in the apparatus of perception must once again find its true training ground in architecture. Building art puts the collective mass in a position of 'expert critic', who identifies themselves with the technical apparatus. Only then can architecture regain its status as 'mass art' and, as the book contends, only then can it resume its function as the only 'artform' that is designed for the political pedagogy of masses, which originally belonged to it in modernity before the invention of cinema"-- Provided by publisher

ISBN:

9780367762810 (hardback)
0367762811 (hardback)
9780367762827 (paperback)
036776282X (paperback)
(ebook)
9781003166252
(ePub ebook)
9781000392104
(PDF ebook)
9781000392067

Subject:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 Criticism and interpretation.
Badiou, Alain Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Badiou, Alain
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Political aspects.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture Aspect politique.
architectural theory.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310036
Call No.: BIB 255167
Status: Available