TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lahiji,Nadir
TI  - Architecture, philosophy and the pedagogy of cinema: from Benjamin to Badiou 
SN  - 9780367762827
AV  - NA2500 .L346 2021
U1  - 720 L346 2021 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -