{"product_id":"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 Jünger, 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.\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Axl Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042229403888,"sku":"9789186883010","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789186883010_p0.jpg?v=1763671924","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789186883010","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}