Utgivning
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Architecture, Critique, Ideology
Sven-Olov Wallenstein -
Sokrates och möjligheten av en politisk konst
Charlotta Weigelt -
Ignorance
Gavin Morrison and Sigrid Sandström (eds.) -
Kontemporalism
Dan Karlholm -
Hans-Georg Gadamer och hermeneutikens aktualitet
Anders Burman (red.) -
Time and Form
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Luiz Carlos Pereira (eds.) -
Avprofessionaliseringstendenser
Jesko Fezer -
Poros
Lars Norén -
Tysk idealism
Anders Burman, Rebecka Lettevall (red.) -
Tapirskrift
Rasmus Fleischer -
Being With the Without
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Jean-Luc Nancy (eds.) -
Om Ulla Wiggen
Peter Cornell, Frans Josef Petersson -
Vad är ett museum?
Dan Karlholm, Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson -
Share This Book
Ramia Mazé, Lisa Olausson, Matilda Plöjel, Johan Redström, Christina Zetterlund -
Om Eva Hesse
Mara Lee -
The Architectural Competition
Magnus Rönn, Reza Kazemian, Jonas E. Andersson (Eds.) -
Om Lee Lozano
Annika von Hausswolff -
Nordic Fashion Studies
Peter McNeil, Louise Wallenberg (eds.) -
Dialogue
Mary Kelly, Cecilia Widenheim -
Proust – Benjamin
Sara Danius -
Nihilism, Art, Technology
Sven-Olov Wallenstein -
Magritte – Foucault. Om orden och tingen
Lars O Ericsson -
Konsten att handla – konsten att tänka
Ulrika Björk, Anders Burman (red.) -
Second Nature
Rolf Hughes, Jenny Sundén (eds.) -
Edmund Husserl
Sven-Olov Wallenstein (red.) -
En gång talade man om Staden
Bosse Bergman -
Arkitekttävlingen som föreställning
Stina Hagelqvist -
Lina Selander: The Space of Memory
Lina Selander, Mara Lee, Trond Lundemo, Frans-Josef Petersson, Sinziana Ravini, Cecilia Grönberg, Kim West, Fredrik Ehlin -
Den Obönhörliga/The Inexorable
Ulla West -
Svar på frågan: Vad var det postmoderna?
Sven Olov Wallenstein (red.) -
Måleriets rum
Håkan Nilsson -
1930|1931
Helena Mattsson, Sven-Olov Wallenstein -
The Visible and the Invisible
Gertrud Olsson -
Konsten att gunga
Monica Sand -
02.AKAD: The Silences of Mies
Sven-Olov Wallenstein -
Påståenden om framtiden
Jesper Meijling -
Deleuze och mångfaldens veck
Helena Mattsson, Sven-Olov Wallenstein (red.) -
Occupying Time
Ramia Mazé -
Daylight Influence on Colour Design
Maud Hårleman -
Arkitekturtävlingar: Erfarenheter från Finland
Reza Kazermian, Magnus Rönn, Charlotte Svensson -
Form & Formlessness
Cheryl Akner-Koler -
Berg-och-dalbanan: Jakten på den heliga G-kraften
Helena Csarmann -
Structuring Fashion
Daniel Koch -
Behind Straight Curtains
Katarina Bonnevier -
Att göra skillnad
Catharina Gabrielsson -
Essays, Lectures
Sven-Olov Wallenstein -
Utforskande arkitektur
Sten Gromark, Fredrik Nilsson (red.) -
Losing the Plot
Malin Zimm -
01.AKAD
Katja Grillner, Per Glembrandt, Sven-Olov Wallenstein (eds.)
Nihilism, Art, Technology
Sven-Olov Wallenstein
ISBN 97891868830102011-08-26
Filosofi
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 Jünger, and Martin Heidegger—all of which are characterized by an avant-garde sensibility that looks to art as a way to counter 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.
Sven-Olov Wallenstein teaches philosophy and aesthetics at Södertörn University, Stockholm, and is the editor-in-chief of SITE.
