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OverviewPhilosophers 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 the position of an ‘expert critic’ who identifies themselves with the technical apparatus of architecture. 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 the period of modernity before the invention of cinema. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nadir Lahiji (University of Pennsylvania, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9780367762810ISBN 10: 0367762811 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 27 May 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Returning to Philosophy of Masses: Benjamin and Badiou 2. From the Photographic Moment of Critical Philosophy to the Optical Unconscious 3. Mass Art and Impurity: Reading Benjamin with Badiou 4. In and Out of Plato’s Cave 5. Theory of Distraction: Tactile and Optical 6. Poverty of Experience 7. Dialectics and Mass Art 8. The Proletarian Mise-en-ScèneReviewsArticulated with rare philosophical intelligence and political incisiveness, Nadir Lahiji's new book proposes architecture as the preeminent art of the masses, one that is closer to cinema than to the other arts. A training ground for our wider confrontations with a technological capitalist modernity, architecture emerges once again as the best hope for a political pedagogy of the masses and for the formation of new political subjectivities. Brilliantly reading Walter Benjamin with Alain Badiou, psychoanalytic criticism with film theory, Architecture, Philosophy and the Pedagogy of Cinema summons us to rethink the very project of architectural production today. David Cunningham, Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture, University of Westminster Author InformationNadir Lahiji is an architect. He holds a Ph.D. in architecture theory from the University of Pennsylvania. He is most recently the author of Architecture or Revolution: Emancipatory Critique after Marx (Routledge, 2020) and An Architecture Manifesto: Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice (Routledge, 2019). His previous publications include, among others, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy (2016), and the co-authored The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City (Routledge, 2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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