Architecture, Philosophy, and the Pedagogy of Cinema - From Benjamin to Badiou

Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. 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.

List of contents

1. 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-Scène

About the author

Nadir 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).

Summary

Philosophers on the art of cinema mainly remain silent about architecture. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nadir Lahiji, Nadir (University of Pennsylvania Lahiji, Lahiji Nadir
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367762827
• ISBN: 978-0-367-76282-7
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Media Studies, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, The environment, Humanities, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, History of Architecture, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, Theory of architecture